Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1863 — Page 4

WEEKLY SENTINEL. IONDAY, ,-. - -- JULY 27. lb Dralt n4 Sla Lnlarcement. The Fort Wajne Sentinel, of a recent date, expresses the appreheosion that the draft will be ordered end enforced in Indiana, as it was in New York, without tnj notification whatever to the public in advance. We learn from official sources that there has not jet been any order re. ceived for a draft in this State. If it be true that the number apportioned to Indiana under the present levy, U 24,420, and that she Is to be credited witn her excess, on previous levies, of some 17,000, we see no necessity for the enforcement of the draft in this State, for there can be but little doubt that our quoU of 7,000 can be easily raised by volunteering. And what apology can there be for a draft, in any event, if the President and the War Department correctly Inform the country when they state that the present forces in the field are everywhere driving the enemy to the wall? Bat be this as it may, if a draft should be ordered in Indiana, we have every confidence that Col. Bakes, the Assistant Provost Marshal Gen eral for the State, will have it fairly, openly and impartially conducted. We believe him to b a gentleman of a nice sense of honor and iutegri ty, and incapable of lending himself to any dishonorable or partisan scheme in the discharge of this duty. .. The highest obligation of every citiiea is obedience to law. The conscript act is a law of the land, and while it remains npon the etatut book, like all other laws, it must be obeyed. "While we believe the law unequal in some of its provisions and contrary to the spirit of the Constitution and our Institutions, obedience to it is far preferable than by forcible resistance to it to have precipitated npon the country the evils of mobs, revolution, or anarchy. The Constitution provides a redress for all unjust enactments and for maladministration by those in power. That remedy is the ballot box. To that arbiter let the appeal be mide, and we have every confidence that an honest people will hurl from power the men whose imbecility hits well nigh ruined the oountrv, and who have proven themselves incompetent to wisely or safely administer the Government. Republican Tactics. The Republican papers and the Republican leaders have but one idea since their advent into power, and that is party success. Since the inauguration of Mr. Lixcolx, they tare exhibited n tught but intense partisan malignity and bigotry. The whole power and resources of the Government have been placed at their disposal for the suppression of the rebellion, yet there never hai been a day since March 4,1961, but they would htve taken more sum faction in exhibiting their hatred toward tlir political opponents and maligning their principles and motives by the use of such terms as "traitors," "secessionists," "cop perbeads," butternuts," kc, than any triumph over the Rebel armies. Today we believe they would rejoice more over the subjugation of the Democratic party than in subduing the Rebel States in hostile array against the Government. They preach in favor of the abnegation of a I parties while the nation ig struggling for existence, but practically not a move is made unless it will tend to the perpetua tion of political power in their bands. Moeoax's raid has had one good effect, and that is to give th - lie to all the charges against the Democratic party ot sympathy with the Rebels. If the Democratic party had any purpose of taking Indiana out of the Union, or of establishing a Jiorthwestern Confederacy, or of uniting the Northwestern States with the Southern Confederacy, the raid of Mono ax would have produced a nucleus around which they could have gathered a nucleus for the accomplishment of those design Yet Mobqav, during his progress through Indiana, found no sympathizers, unless with such prints as the Journal and abolitionists who are in favor of a reparation of the States. Notwithstanding the evidences which the Dem ocracy gave while the enemy was within our borders of their patriotism and loyalty, the siliy slang of "copperheads," "butternuts" and "traitors" comes with increased virulence from the Republicans. Their whole object has been and is to force the Democracy into a false position, but their utter failure to do so makes them gnash their teeth with impotent rage. The country that is in the keeping of such a nest of corruption can expect nothing else but trouble and disaster.

The Cincinnati Chamber of Com meree. This body, composed of business men without reference to party affiliation, hare formally expelled "some thirty or thirty-five" of its mem-., bers for refusing to take some sort of an oath of allei tnce which a mijority had prescribed, and ordered their names published. It is a ridiculous proceeding throughout, and should bring its authors into contempt. An oath of allegiance, so far as a citizen is concerned, neither diminishes r increases his obligations to Iiis government; neither does a refusal to take such an oath lessen the duties be owe to the State. We recognize among those who refused or neglected to take the oath the names of several gentlemen who are as faithful citizens, if not more so, than those who desired to make an exhibition of their loyalty by an illegitimate proceeding a very cheap kind of patriotism. We presume not one of the individuals who were prominent in the matter has ever or will ever shoulder a musket to put down the rebellion, bat they will be found among those who, through fat contracts, are fattening upon the war and the terrible disasters it has occasioned. The day is coming, and it is not far distant, when the men who have instigated the proceedings which have characterized the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce will be regarded with merited contempt." We know not the reasons that influenced the expelled members to refuse to subscribe to the arrogant demands of that bodv , but we presume they were unwilling to have their loyalty questioned, or to submit to degradation by taking an nnau- . thorized oath at the dictation of an association who had no right to require it. The Indianapo lis Journal thus refers to one of the gentlemen expelled", and the remarks it makes npon that' ease will, we have not a doubt, apply to all 7itb equal force: On exi mining the report of the affair in the Gazette, we found the names of the expelled members, and a mong them that of Thomas P. Stunder the proprietor of the Burnett House. W do not know the circumstance under which the demmd that Mr. S. should take the oath was mvle. but we ilo know thttif all theChimbera of CumoMrco from the d.ijs of the Hose-uie League till - now were to rote ''Mr.' 8iunders a di!ojal man, we should" not believe it a bit more thna we believe that Abraham Lincoln is a disloyal man. Mr. Saunders has proved by his wvks that his faith is sound, and better evidence need no man want. II may nave refused to take the o uh of allegiance, and a loval wan, concion of his loyalty, and confident! in the strength of the evidences he has given of it, might easily refuse, if the oath were demanded to remove a suspicion which he never piovoked. and to which he would concede some credibility by so solemn a contradiction. And that Mr. 8aunders ever refused for any other cause, we bwI have more evidenee than we ever expect to see, to believe. It la high time that soch humbug patriotism as that exhibited bj the C. C. C should cease. tIt U considered by the abolition politicians that the idea of a military hero for the next Presidency is plated out The - honors are', too equally divided.

From the Buffalo (X. Y.) Courier.

Hon. C. L. Vallandlcliam' Add res te tu Ieepte ( Obi-H Accepts the Nomination tor Governor and Defines Ilia Position. Niagasa Falls, Casada West, . ... July 15, 1863. Arrested and confined for three weeks In the United States, a prisoner of State; bauished thence to the Confederate States, and there held as an alien enemy and prisoner of war, though on parole, fairly and honorably dealt with and given leave to depart, an act possible only by running the blockade at the hazard of being fired upon bv ships flying the fhgof my own country. I found myself first a freeman. wnen on lintish soil. And to dav, under the protection of the British flag, I am here to enjoy and in part to exercise the privileges and rights which usurpers insolently deny me at home. The shallow contrivance of the weak despots at Washington, and their advisers, has been defeated. Nay, it has been turned against them; and I, who for two years was maligned as in secret league with the Confederates, having refused when in their midst, under circumstances the most favorable. either to identify myself with tbeir cause or eveu so much as to remain, preferring rather exile in a foreign land, return row with allegiance to ray own State and Government, unbroken in word, thought or deed, and with every declaration and pledge to you while at home, and before I was stolen away, made good in spirit aud to the very letter. , Six weeks ago, when just going into banish ment, because an audacious and most cowardlv despotism caused it, 1 addressed you as a fellow cetizen. 1 o day, and from the very place selected by me, but after weary so me and most perilous journey iogs for more than four thousand miles by land and upon the sea; still an exile, though almost in sight of my native State, 1 greet you as your Representative. Grateful certaiuly I am, for the confidence in my integrity and patriotism, implied by the unanimous nom ination as candidate for Governor of Ohio, which you gave me while I was yet in the Confederate States. It was not misplaced; it sli-ill never be abused. But this is the last of all considerations in times like tht.se. I ask no sympathy for the personal wrong. No; it is the cause of cons ti tu tional liberty and private right cruelly outraged beyond example in a free country, by the President and bis servant, which gives public stguifi cancy to the action of your convention. Yours was, indeed, an act of justice to a citizen who. for hia devotion to the rights of the Slates and the liberties of the people, had been marked for destruction by the hand of arbitrary power. But it was much more. It was an example of cour age worthy of the heroic ages of the world; and it was a spectacle and a rebuke to the usurping tyrants who. having broken up the Uuion, would now strike down the Constitution, subvert your Government and establish a formal and pro claimed depoti.m in its stead. You are the re storers and defenders of constitutional liberty, and by that proud title hit tory will salute you. I congratulate you upon your nominations. They whom you have placed upon the ticket with me are gentlemen of character, ability, integrity and tried fidelity to the Constitution, the Union, and to liberty. Their moral aud political cour age a quality always rare, a-.d now the most valuable of public virtues is beyond questiou. bvery way, all these were nominations ht to be made. And even jealousy, lam sure, will now be hushed, if I especially rejoice with you in the nomination of Mr. Pugh as your candidate for Lieuter.ant Governor and President of the Senate . A scholar and a gentleman, a soldier in a foreign war. and always a patriot; eminent as a lawyer, and distinguished as an orator and states man,! hail his acceptance as an omen of the re turn of the better and more'vlrtuous days of the Republic. 1 indorse your noble platform elegant in style; admirable in sentiment, xou present the true issue, and commit yourself to the great mission just now of the Democratic partv to restore and make sure nnst the rights and liberties ueclared yotir3 by your constitutions. It is iu vain to invite the States and people of the South to return to a Union without a Constitution, and dishonored and polluted by repeated and most aggravated exactions of tyrannic power. It is bise in yourselves and treasonable to your pos terity, to surrender the e liberties and rights to the creatures whom your own breath created and can destroy. Shall there be free speech. a free pre.-s, peaceable assemblages of the peo pie and a free ballot any longer in Ohio ? Shall the peop'e hereafter, as hitherto, have the rieht to discus and condemn the prii ciples and policy of the party the ministry the men, who, lor the time, conduct the Govern meat to demand of their public servants a reckoning of their stewardship, and to place other men and another party in power at their supreme will and pleasure? Shall order Thirty-eight or the Constitution be the supreme law of the land? And shall the citizen any more be arrested by an armed soldiery at midnight, dragged from wife and child and home, to a military prisou; them a to a mock military trial; thence condemned and then bani-hed as a felon for the exercise of his rights? This is the issue; and nobly you hare met it. It is the very question of free, popular government itself. It is the whole question upon the one side, liberty; on the other, despot ism. The President, as the recognized head of his party, accepts the issue. Whatever he wills. that is law. Constitutions, State and Federal, are nothing; acts of legislation nothing; the Ju diciary less than nothing. In time of war there is but one will supreme his will; but one lawmilitary necessity, and he the sole judge. Mill tary orders supersede . the Constitution, and mili tary commissions usurp the place of the ordinary courts of justice in the laud. Nor ure these mere klle claims, tor two years and mere, by arms, thev have been enforced. It was the mission of the weak but presumptuous Burnside a name infamous forever in the ears of all lovers of con B'itutional liberty to try the experiment in UUio aiuel by a Judge whom I name not, because he has brought the most foul dis honor npon the judiciary of my country. Ia your hands now.jDen of Ohio, is the final issne ol the experiment. The party of the Administration have accepted it. By pledging support to the 1 resident, they have justified his outrages upon l bcrtv and the Constitution; and whoever gives bis vote to the candidates ol this party, commits himself to every actor violence and wrong on the patt of the Administration which he upholds; and thus, by the law of retaliation, which is the law of might, would forfeit his own rihi to liberty, personal aud political, whensoever other men and another party shall hold the power. Much more do the candidates themselves. Suffer them not, I - entreat you, to evade the issue; and bv the judgment of the people we will abide And now, finally, let me ask, what is the pre text for all the monstrous acta and claims of ar bitrary power which you rave so noblv de nouueed? "Military necessity!" But it, indeed. all these be demanded by military necessity, then, believe me, your liberties are gone, and tyranny is perpetual. For, if this civil war is to terminale only by the a.bjusation of the South to force and arms, the infmt of to day will not live to see the end of it. No, in another way only can it be brought to a close. Traveling a inousa ia miles ana more, through nearly one half of the Confederate States, and so joiiruing tor a time at widely different p nuts, I met not one man, woman, or child, who was not resolved to perish rather than yield to the procure of arms, even in the most desDerate extremity. And whatever may and must be the varying fortunes of the war, in all which I recognize the hand of Providence pointing visibly to the ultimate issue of this great trial of . 1 .z? . . a i c . . . tue oiaio unu peupio ui America, mey are Detter prepared now every way to make good their inexorable purpose, than at any period since the beginning ot the straggle. 1 lies may indeed be unwelcome truths; but they are addressed only to candid and honest men. Neither, ho ever, let me add, did I meet any one, whatever his opinions or his station, political or private, who did not declare his readiness, when tin rear hall have rented and invading mrmiet been withdrawn to consider and di'cu the question of reunion And who shall doubt the issue of the argument? I re; urn, therefore-, with mv opinions and eonvic tiona as tvr war or peac, and aiy faith as to final results from sound policy and wise statesman ship, not only unchanged, but confirmed and strengthened. And may the God of heaven and earth so rule the hearts and minds of Amencaus everywhere, that with a Constitution maintained. a Union restored and Liberty henceforth made secure, and grander and nobler destiny shall yet be ous. than that eveu which blessed our fathers in the first two agea of tba Reoublic, . - . - -' ,v - - v C. L." Vallaswoham. AaaxsT or Oes. Bice lit. Provost Marshal Merriwetber arrested at the DePaw House in this city, last evening,' a man named George W. L. Bickley, supposed to be the originator and chief of the Knights of the Golden Circle. II was pointed out to Col. M. by a citizen who knew him After his arrest, Bickley acknowledged to his name, but said he was a nephew of the orig inator of the Knights, lie furthermore said he was under orders from General Rosecrans to report to General Burnside at Cincinnati, which he was proceeding to do when arrested. Genera Boyle gave orders that he should be held and given an opportunity to report to General Burnside. If he is really the Grand Master of the K. G. Ca, the arrest is an important one (New I Albany Ledger. .-:-.

Friendship for the Laboring Ien. .The radical press in New Yo'rk City, and we

may add of the whole country, are condemning Governor Skymour, for expressing in his speech to the rioters in that city his friendship for the laboring classes, those who earn their bread by daily and honorable toil. The radical Republicans pronounce such a sympathy a crime. Every true man can not but entertain the highest respect for the men whose labor is the basis of the nation's wealth," and the policy of the Govern ment should be to makers burdensfa.ll as lightly upon that class as nosuble. The New York Journal of Commerce, in vindicating the course of Governor Setmoie, thus remarks: The Post is scarcely less excited and unman ageable in its style than its radical coadjutor, the Tribune. It is noteworthy that these papers both are enraged at Governor Seymour for Having to the people that be is their friend, aud asking them to go to their homes aud trust in him to protect their rights. W e cannot see the point of the criticism. Un the contrary, we trust the Got ernor of the State will always prove himself the mend or the humblest citizen, the accused, even the condemned murder. No man is so low in the scale of consideration, so debased even by his own crimes, that the benevolent and noble heart of the true pi trio t and Christian cannot say "I am your friend W hy, these radical baters of their fellow men must read the story of the penitent thief with u dislike to the spirit of the master who spoke kindly to him in the bonr of, bis execution.. The spirit . which is exhibited in the desire to exterminate those who are engaged in criminal insurrection, either at New lork against New York, or at the south against the Constitution, is the spirit which has cost os thousands of lives, millions of treasure, and is never half so likely to be successful aa that which invites repentance while it assures punishment to the obstinate. Such a spirit, if adopted in the suppression of the mob here, would have been very likely to have resulted Hi the loss of vastly more lives on the part of the policemen and soldiery, and the destruction of much more property bv Ihe mob. Had the Gov ernor been possessed, on Tuesday, of a sufficient military force to suppress the riot at once, it would have been inconsistent with his character os a pure and , high-minded man, a magistrate having the utmost affection for all the people under his rule, the misguided, the guilty, as well as tne innocent, to oo so ry snooting tnem down before he had attempted to appeal to their feelings, and induce thcra to regard him as their truest friend and protector. In calmer moments, our excited co temporaries will see this subject in its true light, nnd regret their foolish remarks of yesterday, which were calculated to weaken the power of the Governor and thus to aid the mob. Iftheydonot see it, then there will be an additional argument to be used in fixing the responsibility of the mob on the proper persons when we come to discuss the subject hereafter. We have no tender regard for rioters, and when they cannot be dispersed by other means they must be shot down without mercy. The not must be suppressed. Humanity approves of every endeavor to suppress it with as little bloodshed as possible. Hnsnenaion of the Draft The New York Express thus argues upon the expediency and policy of suspending the draft and the policy of enforcing a measure which the exigencies of the country do not demand: There is no disgrace, ever, in listening to auajects at the foot of the throne! Her Majesty of England, and His Majesty of Austria hear, and receive petitions, even from subjects over whom they ure Sovereign, by right divine, as monarch ists reason. I lie august binoeror of I1 ranee, the victor Napoleon, has just changed his Ministry, to propitiate subject Frenchmen, exhibiting in tbeir recent elections dissatisfaction with his policy. The uiore august Abraham Lincoln is the greater god. Power makes of him. the more, he can afford to stoop down his majestic head. and receive in his ears, the humble, and respect ful petition of his aggrieved people. Nor will the susoension "oaralvze the arm of the Government, as the Times reasons, for the Government is now so re established by the great victories on the Mississippi, as well as bv the successful battles of Gettysburg, and "the rout" of Lee, (we quote the Secretary of War,) that no eontertption now is necessary, and if persisted in, as people must reason, will onlv be persisted in, to subjugate the North. The President himself, in his Thanksgiving Proclamation, says: 'It has pleased Almighty God to hearken to the supplications nnd prayers of an afflicted people, and to vouchsafe to the army and the navy of the United States, on the laud and on the sea. victories so signal and so effective as to furnish reasonable ground for augmented confidence that the Union of these States will be maintained, their Constitution preserved, and their peace and prosperity permanently preserved. The Times, therefore, is hard, harsh, contra dictory even of its own President, when it says of the conscription: "We cau afford to fight it out; we can afford to see our orphan asylums and benevolent institutions burned to the ground; we enn afford to have our houses plundered, our sh"pa sacked. our helpless children murdered in cold blood; we can aff rd all these things, and worse, if worse are possible and necessary; but we cannot afford to surrender the control of this city and the au thority of the nation's laws into the hands of such a mob as is now grasping with black and bloody hands at complete supremacy." V e can "allord no sm h horrors or, if we can afford them, we shall have but little to thank . God for, August 6. ihe day named by the President for a thnnksgiring. The day, if such horrors as these be invoked, as the alternative of a now unnecessary conscription, will be a day for fasting and prayer, surely no day for a general thanksgiving. The poor wife, with hungry children about, whose father and protector is taken nfT by the ronscription Irom earning bread for them to eat, can not thank God. The soldier in the army. with the vision I a famished wife and children left behind him, will have but little to thank God lor. God abhors, must abhor, an "act" which, while it drags down all claa-eü of labor to the fearful futurity of a conscription, excepts the better-off men, to whom even $300 may be nothing. To ark the m HI ion of poor to be thankful, when the rich can thus briug them means for thank fullness, will be but to make the 6ih of Aajrual day, aa we vtate. for fasting, prayer and penitence certainly no day for a national thanksgiving. We beg the President, therefore, to open the thankful hearts of all, of the working man in his work shop, as well as ti.e better off mm in his saloon, and on his sofas and carpets. God knows no difference between Lazarus and Dives. ? Nor is it true, as the Times reasons, that a mob even now rules nnd dominates this city, or that anybody askalhe State or Feder.il Government to surrender to a mob. The mob will be put down, snd is now going down. Mobs are but of the hour and no wie administration of Government when raoba are h8be),--wiil act as if the whole people were a mob. unless they intend to create a civil war, or a revolution. We who now beg, who Implore, who conjure the President from the Governor of the Sute down to iu humblest inhabitant are not of the excepted mob, but many of us are in arms against that mob. . The reason why it is n mob, it because it does not know and comprehend the Constitutions of the country, and see in them the almost certain , means of redress. Because wa do comprehend the Federal and the State Constitutions, and because we do see in them the nearly certain means ' for the salvation of the cause of Liberty, we suppress these mobsand exhort for their suppression; but if. as the Timet and the Tribune advocate, both State as well as Federal Constitutions are to be overridden, this mob , will certainly end in revolution. ' Hence now not alone the labor of this great city, but the wealth of this city implore a suspension of the draft the Fifth .Avenue, if possible, more than the First avenue and if a poll were to be taken of the 18th and 21st wards, where the wealth of the city mainly is. the vote would be fifty to one for a suspeneion of the draft. Hence away with all such talk as this in the..Titnestht the friends of the suspension of the. conscription are but "the mob." In this connection we quote the views expressed by Mr. Hakbis, in the United States Senate, when the conscript Jaw ws tinder consideration in that body. Mr. Habbis was formerly a judge in the highest courts of New York, and is no a Republican Senator representing that State." His character as a lawyer and his present post tion certainly give weight to his opinions and en title them to consideration by all who desire to preserve Republican institutions England, with her m wiy wars and often scarcity of men, we err resorts to this despotic measure. It was a mode of raising armies ONLY USED BY DESPOTS, bat never by Republican povernme nil. and the principle, if adopted, would provide large standing armies, which almost inevitably lead to despotism. In a government of delegated power, and which rested upon the con sent of the governed, it was inexpedient and unnecessary. ' ' ,

CONGRESS HAD NOT THE POWER. UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, THUS TO DE

3 TROY THE MILITIA OF THE STATES, which the Constitution provided for as a reserved force of the Uuion. If this measure were adopt ed, there would be centralized power. State Itemt The present population of Goshen is 2,047 males, 1.030; females, 1.004; colored persons, 13. Notwithstanding the war, the male are uppermost in Goshen. . ' fcys the New Albany Ledger: We regret that our information in reference to the surrender of three or four hundred home guards mt Salem, by General Cravens, member of Congress from this District, does that gentleman great injustice. The report is wholly without foundation. General Cravens neither surrendered himself nor a single man of bis command. Those captured at Salem were taken as regular prisoners, and not by any formal capitulation. We have conversed with a number of gentlemen who belonged to Gen. Craveus' command. and they all agree in saying that no officer discharged bis duties in a more intelligent atd fearless manner than he. His command followed the Rebels into Ohio, and only returned to their homes when ordered back by Gen. Burnside and Gov. Morton. So closely did it pursue the retreating enemy that at Harrison, Ohio, it came up with them and gave them several rounds, the Rebels retiring rapidly and in confusion before Gen. Cravens and bis gallant men. But Gen. Cbavens ia a Democrat, and therefore the Republican prints will attempt to damn him with faint praise. Quite a number of Morgan's men are scattered through Harrison, Washington, Scott aud other counties through which the command passed in this State. These strcgglers are for the most p tri men who have broken down, or deserted from the enemy. Squad3 of them are being captured and brought to this city almost daily. For the most part they are a defiant but dirty looking set of Rebels. New Albany Ledger. Among the Brigadier Generals captured by Gen. Grant at Vicksburg was Francis A Shoup, formerly of Indianapolis, snd a son of the late Geo. G. Shoup, of Franklin county. Good Whbat. We have been shown some heads of wheat raised on the farm of Mr. Delivin, of this county, which are ahead ot anything we have yet seen. It is called the '-Rappahannock wheat," and was distribnted Irom the Patent office a year or two ago. The kernels are very large, each head containing from fifty to sixty grains. Fort Wayne Times. RiFtsY Couxti Dkmocbat. This is the name ot a uew paper just started in Versailles. It is published by J oh B. Fkt, and is conducted by En. P. Ferris, editor, and L. B. Leeds, asso ciate editor. The Democrat presents a Deal mechanical appearance, and its editorials are marked with ability, and a just appreciation of the crisis in our national afftirs. The Democracy, and all true citizens of Ripley county should give this er vcrprise a beany support, for at no previous period in the history of the country has there been a greater necessity for the disemiuatiou of f.ouud principles. Crops in Ripley Cocxtt. The principal part of the wheat crop in this county will be harvest ed during the present week, the general opiniou is that the crop will be a fair average one; the grain is excellent. We have heard some complaint of smut in some fields. The corn crop will be late but quite good from present appearance. In some localities we hear of good crops of oats, but, as a general thing, the crop will be light. Two weeks ago the prospect for grass was poor indeed, but the 1 tie rains have increased the prospect for a fair crop twenty-five per cent. Democrat. Hon. J. R. CotTYoth was the orator at the celebration of the Fourth of July by the ci izens of Huntington. The oration was an eloquent efTort. We quote the following extract: So now,' the hour is dark, very dark, for America aud Constitutional Liberty. This is our day of trial the death dew is gathering upon our nation's bro. Despots shake themselves and laugh with idiot glee at our discomfiture, and hail it as the dawn of ioa;'a eternal political night. And oh, should our star go down amid the crashing of the tempest, the mournful voice of tn unlet ed L:berty would be heard above the storm, like the cries ot the sorrowing sea bird wailing over the tomb of the mighty dead But no, no, do not dispair. Hope iu God. Stand by the Constitution and the ft ig. The Union must not nay, cannot be destroyed; for its affections are the hopes of the world. Courage, courage. Hope ou, hope ever. The storm howls fierce, but don't give up the Ship of State. Swear with me this day, that, come weal or come woe, we will stand by the Union with the Cousti tution unimpaired. Let us stand as a wall of fire to guard each star in our glorious banner. Le.t us forget our past prejudices and hates, and save the Government in its purity save it by fair and honorable adjustment of its difficulties, if it cau be save it by war if it must be; but in everv event, save it. "That which God hath joined together, let no man put asunder." Tua Income Tax. OdIv two persons in this Congressional District report an income tax over ten thousand dollars Calvin Fletcher, Sr., aud J. A. Crosslaxd, both of this city. The Lafjyelte Journal in noticing the above says: We do not know how many persons in this (the 8'.li) District, pay a tax on an income of over ten thousand dollars, but iu this city there are four individuals who pay a tax considerably beyond this sum, aud their names, and the order iu which they are taxed, is as follows: John Purdue, Adams Earl, W. II. Hatcher and Jamea 3penrs. We are surprised tu find t hat the names of a dozen others of our wealthy citizens are not in eluded in this list. Filto.x County The Democracy of Fulton nominated mi excellent ticket at their recent convention m folio: Recorder, M ilo R Smith; Appraiser, Wm. McMihiu; Surveyor, Isaiah Walker; Commissioner, Thomas Meredith; Coroner, C'leb Montgomery. The ticket will be elected by a large iinjonty. Xlie .11 od im Operandi of (lie Draft The following which has just been received from the conscription bureau, describes the exact lorm aud manner of making the draft: Waa Depahtmext, ) Provost Marshal General's Oltice, Washisstos. D. C. July 9. 1863 ) Circular No. 41. INSTRUCTIONS RELATIVE TO MAKING THE DHAFT. I. Prtivo-t Marshal will cause the name of each person of the fit class enroled, to be written on a card as soon as the enrollment lists are completed. These cards must be uniform in size, shape and color. II The cards are then to be assorted by subdistricts, verified by comparison with the enrollment lists, and placed in an envelope marked with the number of the sub-district and the num ber of cards contaiued in it, and sealed. III. After all the aub-districta hare been thus prepared, all the envelopes will be put in one, and sealed up and put away until the d-ij of the draft. IV. On the day of the draft the Board of Enrollment will open the envelop in presence of any who choose to attend, and take the envelop con taming the cards of the first sub district. These cards will be counted as they are placed In the bot. and must agree with the number on the envelop. The box should be about one foot wide, one foot deep, and one and a half long, with a lid securely fastened on, and a bole in the lid larpe enough to admit a man's hand. V. .Thia being iione, the CommissioLer will announce that the draft for the first sub district of such district of such Sute, for so many men, will commence.'. .. ' VI. The Provost Marshal, or some trusty person selected by bim, will then be bliadfolded, and dr.vw from the box a single card, which he will hand to the Commissioner, who will read aloud the name on it. The clerk will immediately enter this name on a list previously pre pared, opposite No. 1. Thcs ibe draft will con tinue until the required number of names are drawn, whea the card remaining in the box will be taken out and counted, so as to verify the whole number originally put in. - . VII. Great care must be taken to enter the names ou the roll exactly. In the order in which they are drawn. VIII. The remaining sub districts will be proceeded with in like manner. IX. As soon as practicable, person drafted will be notified."' Jas. B. Far, Provost Marshal General. tJJ" Forty thousand prisoners taken In two fortifications are the evidences of "Gen. Grant's fortytudt. .; ........ k

The Reason for the Draft The New York Herald, in commenting upon the reasons given for the enforcement of the draft, remarks: One of our Washington correspondents states that the main reason for the enforcement of the draft at this time is the threatening aspect ot our relations with England. The government at Washington looks upon the speeches in Parliament, the hostile attitude of the press of London, and the decision made in the Alexandria case, as sn intimation of war, and therefore pushes forward the draft to be prepared for it. Another reason assigned is the complication growing out of the French war in Mexico; but this, like that of England, we consider rests entirely npon con tingencies yet in the future. It is also stated from other sources that the government is desirous of the draft under the idea that many of those drafted will pay the three hundred dollars, and thus a fund will be obtained large enough to pay sufficient bounty to the two years and nine months men to induce them to re enlist. It is likewise said that the au

thorities consider this the culminating point of the rebellion, aud they desira to organize the 300,000 additional men as a reserve force, for the purpose of showing the Rebels that there is no use of their holding out any longer. It is under stood that the Administration intend to enlarge and strengthen all the fortifications alone our seacoast, and raanr of the new men will be placed in those fortifications, and there be drilled in the manning of heavy guus and in artillery practice. We have not sufficient data to say whether all these reasons have convinced the government that the draft is imperatively necessary at this time. Whether any one or all of them have led to the call lor more troops, time will show. Meauwhile let everybody keep cool. Let all calm tbeir troubled souls, and wait patiently the development that the day brings forth, and they miy yet see the present troubles all amicably ar ranged, and the rights of all properly protected. In a Republican government the rulers are recognized not as masters but as servants of the people. The policy of the Administration t-hould cot therefore be concealed from the country. The people have a right to know the considerations and objects for which burdens are demanded of them by those who conduct the government. If the present forces in the field are insufficient to overthrow th Rebel armies; or if our foreign relations are so complicated that hostilities may result with foreign Dowers; or if revenue is to be raised from the payments for exemptions; or if it is necessary to enlarge, strengthen and mnn the fortifications upon the coast; or if it Is the policy to overawe the rebellion by calling out an oversh idowing force, they should be given as sufficient reasons for ordering a large draft, but it is due to the people, the source of power, that they should be advised as to the policy of the Administration, and their represen tatives consulted before any important measures are adopted which the exigencies of the country do not seem to demand The people have cheerfully and with alacrity respouded to every call of the Administration formen and money when the national necessities seemed to demand it, and they will in like spirit still further respond to such calls if they are sntisfied that there are no other purposes iu view but the suppression of the rebellion, the restoration of the Union and the maintenance of the constitution al Government as administered so wisely by Washington and his successors. A love of liberty, of sell government, not unrestricted, but regulated by the constitution and laws framed an l enacted by tl.em-clves, animates and controls the American people. To secure hod pcrpe(uate the blessings of civiJ and religious liberty they are reidy to make every needful sacrifice. They de-ure to see this great Republic, which has been the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, continued upon the basis which has given it its prosperity, strength and glory. It should not be forottoti that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, hence the necessity of watching and resisting every encroachment upon popular rights and every exercise of arbitrary power. We do not ask that the Administration should divulge the movements of the armies or the military strategy of the:r Generals, but if it it pure in purpose and sincerely desires the confidence of the people, it will have no concealments as to public policy, and no ulterior designs which are not apparent to the country. It is the distrust of the capacity and designs of the representatives of the party in power that has divided the Northern people, and they have a right to manifest that distrust when the Admiirstration has proven so faithless to all its public pledges. What possible hirm could arise by letting the peonlc know, iu the present state of the country, the necessity or justification fur a draft ot three hundred thousand conscripts? An Unf ortunnte Occurrence. Ou last Friday evening, about Ö o'clock, a serious fiht occurred, in which Harry Hill, an old and worthy cinzeu of this town, lost his life. The facts in the c ic. as we arc informed, are as follows: On Friday, Franklin was more in a state of excitement ilnn we h id ever before seen it, consequent noon lite new of Morgan's raid into the State and the collecting together at this place of the different hom uard companies of this county i'.repariii to urive the invaders from our soil. "During the dy, Mr. Hill was around with a paper rndca voriua to enlist men for a company indepeii'ieut of the guards, for the purpose of defending i lie Suue from its present invasion, and while thus enaed near J. T. Vawter's drug store, he wa p;ro ached by some person (probably one of the home guards, who called him a Ol-d d d tiaiior. Hill replied to the man that he was a U d l d liar, a-hl that he waa as good a Union mm as he was; whereupon the man struck at Hill tiroVr three licks with his fist, nnd before Hill havlvtfiue to retaliate a man by the US me of Uazeu caught Ism by the arm nnd also struck at hi in tan or I luce licks. Hill seeing that he was about to be mliieJ, m ule his way out followed by the mm ll'zeu and a large crowd of the home guards, but finally made his escape. Io the evening Hill came down upon the street to find Hazen and deaimd ol him au apology for his assault cn him during the day, and asked Mr. Wm. H. Barnett to accompany him, to witness what Hazeu would say. . They foutul Hazen at Webb & Payne's office, and Hill as'ed him to come out ou the street as he wanted to talk with him about the difficulty that happened during the day. Hazen refused to come out, whereupon Hill went into the office, and he and Hazen got iuto scuffle in which Hazen stabbed Hill a number of time near the region of the heart, result ing In almost instant death. During the difficulty, Mr Barnett received a slight wound in the breast Irom Hazeu. We are sorry indeed to chronicle such an occurrence, and we hope that in future all good citizens, irrespective of party, will use their erTorts to prevent such bloodshed. Men who in public indulge iu language so abusive as to create ill feelings nod hatred should and will be held responsible for such occurrences. Franklin Herald. Talking l'olltlc . . If men will abstain from political discussions while the riot continues, they will save a great deal of froth and contribute to the general peace and quiet. Radical newspapers are laboring to excite a fierce political controversy. .Let them alone. Pay no ntlenlion to any man who wants to talk politics in connection with the riot. The mob began with opposition to the draft, and ran, as mobs always run, into indiscriminate riot All sensible meu are agreed to put it do wn. That is the work of the hour. Let it be done, and reserve the questioti of responsibility to be discussed in a day or two. We are perfectly willing lo remain quiet, and permit the radical papers to charge it on us and on our principles. It does no harm to us to be abused, aud we prefer to do our duty as citizens for the present. ' We will express our well known sentiments on the real authors of this calamity in proper time. We suggest to all citizens that they do likewise. Let us help Gov. Seymour to restore law and order, and not be angered or disturbed by the twaddle or the rage of politicians who want to make capital out of these terrible occurrences. New ' ork Journal of Commerce. Depreaed. t, ' . A Washington correspondent says "the President avowed himself profoundly depressed by the fact of the escape of Lee. ,

All Sorts of Paragraph. Hmoasor th Dbaft. Oer neighbor of the ournal is very facetious in recording the noted

persona in New EngUud who have been drafted. The following item explains the results of the joke: Oslt Oxa Max Mlstebco Is. Out of sever al hundred men drafted in Providence, Ii. I., only one mm has thus far been mustered in! All the rest paid the $300 nnd got off ! It is not to be wondered at, that in cities where this can be done, the draft is quietly submit ted to, out in communities where it can not be done, excitement is natural and unavoidable A Federal soldier violated the person of a grand daughter of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. 1 be soldier was ordered to be hung Chicago Times. An English private sol1ier is now paid about Jliun year; a riencn one about JoU a year. A Colonel iu France receives about $1,600, and in England about $5,000. The name of the military commandant at Philadelphia, is Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana Phoebus 1 . The thirty-days militia who went from New Tork for the defense o f Pennsylvania, are to be credited and accountel for in the coming draft on the basis of three years service that is, 36 i en counting as one. . 1 be modern interpretation of the term lucky cuss," is "a man who has beeu enrolled in two dit-tricts and drafted in both. Of course, if he fails to answer in either, he is liable to bo apprehended and shot as a deserter. Next to the envied patent of twins, such an individual is the prince of good fortune In two weeks' Um-, without military organi zation and without martial law, the citizens of Pittsburg, with pick aud shovel, constructed line of intrench ojsiits arouud that citv 15 miles n extent. The runs for the oeveral forts, con sist'iig of 8 and 10 inch colutubiads. have all been placed in position. Blockhead is an appropriate cognomen for the Republicans. The old blockhead Kings of Europe thought the only argument to be used with their subjects who questioned the policy of any of their measures was the cannon; so the Republicans, in a Government of the people, cry amen when any American citizen is consigned to the Bastile or exiled from his country for ques tioning the wisdom or denouncing the despotic acts of the powers that be. O. P. M. has gone to Cincinnati to have his "pictcr" taken. It is to be framed, and hun (that is the "picter") up in the Council Chamber of that city, and that human face divine will be pointed out to posterity as the 'noble" Governor who drove out, as Sampson did the Philistines the Morgan raiders, and with a similar weapon Gentlemen in high official positions assert that the wife of the Rebel General Wise has re cently paid a visit to Washington, and that while there she succeeded iu securing the exemption o certain property belonging to her relatives from confiscation. This is what Wen !ell Phillips calls Post master Blair: "The huckstering politician of the Cabinet; "the man who has uttered the most stupendous lie of the century;" "thebolden liar ou the continent;" "a mongrel politician;" "a truck and apostate;" and he savs the whole Ca hi net is ignorant," "brainless," "hybrid." Mr Blair is opposed to negro equality and amalga ma tion. Prentice thinks Humphrey Marshall would have to march slow. He looks as if it would be a heavy task to fetch up his rear. The editor of the Journal is very indignsn because the rioters of New York robbed som huckster waggons on their way to market. Th act was very wicked, but will it equal in turpi tude the dodge of promUiug bribes to Govern ment officials to secure fat Government war con tracts, and when obtained to swindle the officer out of bis compensation? See Washburn's He portou Government Contracts. State Iteiua. The Fort Wayne Sentinel of Monday says We had a glorious rain this morning, wh will be of inestimable value to the suffering and pare neu crops. There were slight frosts two or three nights last week, which injured the corn considerably on some ot the low grounds aud . river bottoms, Beans and other garden vines also suffered. The Clay County Democrat says: The most bountiful wheat crop that has smiled upon us lor many a year is just stored. Tneincom ing crops never presented a better appearance. little rain just now would prove highly beneficial It is staled that His Excellency is negotia ling for the land ihit Morgan traversed through Indiana, as otie of the moinentoes of the war. There is to be a meeting of the Democracy of Greene couuty, on Saturday, the 25th inst., at Owensburg. The Gibson Democrat makes the following hit: bcocNDRtLS ix oia i own. it nas been as serted by prominent professional men in ou place, that an organization known as the Knights of the Golden (Jiro.e, known to be disloyal in in tent is in operation m our midst. Now, accord ing to the laws of Indiana, tf man who has know ede of any trcssou against the Stale, and refuses or omits to make the same known to the proper authorities, is a scoundrel, und liable to serve twenty years in the State's prison, and pay a Sue of ten thousand dollars. If we have a treasonable organization in our community, let those who ark knowing to the fact, make it public or else when they assert that such an organization exista among us, let the law be enforced against tbem at once for failing to make it known. Mr. Jaul Vcokhbi, a conductor ou the St Louis railroad, met with a fatal accident near Terre Haute on Monday. A switch had been leit open just east of the river bridge, which ran the car off the track, and Mr. Vooehees, at tempting to jump from the train, was caught under one of the cars and both thighs crushed in such a manner that be died iu a few hours. He leaves a wife and two small children. Coax Caop. We have highly encouraging accounts of the growing com crop in Southern Indiana. The recent rains were most propitious, and have put the crop beyond danger of any succeeding drouth. The yield promises to be fully equal to the most favorable seasons. All the Republican papers say that the motto of "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God," is a disloyal fentioicnt. If it is, then the men of 76. who achieved our independence, are traitors. It is estimated that the draft in Wisconsin will be for 13.320 men, to which 50 per cent, is to be added. A Camp or IxsraccTio.t rot Dkafted Men. A camp of instruction for the newly drafted regiments ia idout to be established half way between Baltimore and Washington, at Annapolis Junction. General Egbert L Viele, who hss been relieved of his duties aa Military Governor of Norfolk, owing to the restoratiom of civil government to that city, has been placed in com mand. This camp Is under the immediate su perimendence of the Secretary of War, to whom Gen. Viele reports directly. DaarTKit. The negro Tillmau, who killed so many privateers with an ax on board the schooner S. J. Waring, has becu drsfied la Khode Island. -The news from North Caroliua is highly important, as iudicatiug an open effort now being made there to reuousiruct the Union, in which the Hou. Bedford iirowu, a leading aud powerful Democrat iu that State, aud long a Seuator in Congress, is taking au active part. If our Ad-miiiisti-ation would only exteud the right band of fellowship to such Union men South, iu three months time we would all be living happily, once more, together. , . - . A correspondent j f . the Chicago Times, writing from the Clifton House says : Mr Yallandtgham was treated in all respects as a prisoner of war in the South, and permitted to depart on giving his parole. He succeeded in running the blockad J at Wilmiugtou, North Carolina, about the middle of Juue, in a small steamer, which took him to Bermuda. From the latter place he proceeded in a small steamer to Halifax, where be arrived safely a few days ago, and took passage up the St. Lawrence to Quebec, whence be came by rail to Clifton. Throughout bis sojourn in the seceded States, Mr. Yallandigbam was regarded as prisoner of war. : .

- The Stephen Mission. - The following letter from , iirr. Dana ; to

Alexaxdkk H. Stcpbx5s explains the objects which the latter had In view in soliciting a per sonal interview with Mr. LnrcoLK: -' Richmond, July 2, 1863. Boa. A. H. Stephen, Richivoad. Ta Sia: Having accepted vour patriotic offer to proceed, as a military commissioner, under a flag of truce, to Washington, yoi: will receive here with your authority to -the Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States. . i l n J I nis letter is signed oy me as vuiur-.anucr-iu-Cbief of the Confederate land and naval forces. You will perceive, frora the terms of the letter, that it is so worded as to avoid any political difficulties in iu reception. Intended exclusively as one of those communications between belligerents which public law recognizes as necessary and proper between hostile forces, care has been taken to give no pretext for refusing to receive it on the ground thztit would involve a tacit recognition of the independence of the Confederacy. Tour mission is simply one of humanity, aud has no political aspect. If objection is made to receiving your letter on the ground that it is not addressed to Abraham Lincoln, as President, instead of Commander inChief, &c, then you will present the duplicate letter, which is addressed to him as President, and signed by me as President. Tu this letter objection may be made on the ground that 1 am not recognized to be President of the Confeder acy. In this event you will decline an v further attempt to confer on the subject of your mission. as such conterence is admissible only on the fooling of perfect equality. Mv recent interviews with tou have put vou so fully in possession of my views, that it is scarcely necessary to give you any detailed instructions, even were I. at this moment, well enough to attempt it. My whole process is, in one word, to place this war on the same footing of such as are waged by civilized people in modern times, and to divest it of the savage character which has been impressed on it bv our enemies, in spite of all our efforts and protests. War is full enough of unavoidable horrors, under all its aspects, to justify, and even to demand, of any Christian ruler who may be unhappily engaged in carrying it on, to seek to restrict its calamities, and to direst it of all unnecessary severities. You will endeavor to establish the cartel for the exchange of prisoners on such a basis as to avoid the constant difficulties and complaints which arise, and to prevent, for the future, what we deem the unfair conduct of our enemiea in evading the delivery of the prisoners who fall into their hands; in retarding it by sending them on circuitous routes; and by detaining them, sometimes for months, in camps and prisons, and in pers uing in taking captive non combatant. Your attention is also called to the unheard of conduct of Federal officers iu driving from their homes entire communities of women and children, as well as of men. whom they find in districts occupied by their troops, for no other reason than that these unfortunates are faithful to their allegiance due to their Stares, and refuse to take an oath of fidelity to their enemies. The putting to death of unarmed prisoners has been a ground of just complaint in more than one instance, and the recent execution of officers of our army in Kentucky, for the sole cause that they were enraged in recruiting in a State which is t-till claimed as one of the United States, but is also claimed by us as one of the Con fed er-. ate States, must be redressed by retaliation unless unconditionally abandoned, because it would justify the execution in every other State of the Confederacy, and the practice is barbarous, uselessly cruel, and can only lead to the slaughter of prisoners on both sides, a result too horrible to contemplate without making every effort to avoid it. On these and kindrel subjects you will consider your authority full and ample to make such arrangements as will temper the present cruel character of the contest, and full confidence is placed in your judgment, patriotism and discretion, that, while carryiug out the objects of your mission, you will take care that the equal rights of the Confederacy be always preserved. Very respectfully, (Signed:) JtFFtitsox Davis. One-third or the Rebel Armies Killed Wounded or Captured. The great proportions of the recent successes of the Union arm: is illustrated by the numbers of the Relxl fories placed hors du combat since July 1. The total number killed, wounded and prisoners in two weeks, exceeds eighty thousand, or nearly one third of the entire effective Rebel armies. We have now as prisoners or on parol, over 70,000 Rebel prisoners of war. Against this they hold or have released on parol, about 15.000 net exchanged. Arrangements are now being made to exchange the full number of our enlisted men, and they will all be able to return to duty in a few days. In view of the very larce numbers of Rebel officers in our hands, an arrangement will doubtless be effected for the release and exchange of the Union officers and citizens who hare been de tained in conseuuence of the interruption of the previous cartel by the action of the Rebel authorities. JrSome idea of the golden wealth of Colorado Territory may be gained from the fact that a single claim of seventy feet is capable of producing, with the improved machinery now in ue, nearly h ilt a million dollars' worth of gtid per annum. CSGen. Blair had mined one of the Vicksburg posts nppoite him. and was aboutto explode it, when it was found that the Rebels had countermined and carried off the powder. SCALES. JTAIIIIIA PATENT PLATFORM SCALES A IKBiaC'l CATTLX, HAT, COAL, GRAI5, WAREHOUSE, RAILROAD, TRACK, -f-'T--" '5 COUITTBR SCALES, l i F II "4 i --Tr I If! anufartarrd only hy FXISBA5K Johntbury, mm Vermont. Per sale at Hannfactrcr'pricrby w.p.3iLLUr,lent, T4 WtWaliBf-tt., apll-wly anipol s, Indiana. CUARDIAN'S SALE. Guardian's Sale of Real Estate. f lHE UXDERSIGSED, GCARDIAK OF ALASSOX O. I Steren, will bold for vale at private Mia on and after July 2d. 1863, Ihe following Kel Ectate vie Lot Ne. 13. 1. 15, 16, 17. 18, K; 79, 30, SI, SI, 33 and St in Meli K. Dowiiie'n, Gardl.-jV,nb-divUloii of out lot (102 one hundred and two, in th city ot Indiaeapo Ii, Indiana. Ütaid aale will be tnada In compliance with an orter of the Court of Common Plea of Marion Coant j, Indiana. Tcbn or Sau Tb lota Witt be aold at he appraieea value, cpon the following terms: One-third of tba purchase money cah In bund, one-thtrd payable In on year, and aue third payable in two yean after date of aale, the purchaser executing for the deferred partaenta hi promiry ntne payable with Interest, without relief from valuation or appraisement law, and aecured by mortffare on the real mute purchased. The ab-nre described real eetate will ba held for aale at the office of Cottrrl! Knight, on Delaware treet, la tba city of Inlianapolirt. MELISSA t. DOW HIE, InlylS w3t ' ftnrd1aw. A SMALL FARM WANTED. I WISH TO PURCHASE A SMALL TARM OF TTHUTI, Forty or Fifty Arret with pretty (food Improvements, and abould Ilka to have It convenient to a Station oa some Railroad leading from Indianapolis. Any on feav. inr. sack a place for sale will please address me at Indianapolis, Rllaf full descriptions, with lowest cash prlc June29-w8w J. U.OGLBSBT. Of fa A frIOSTIII Tfs want agenu at fdQ a JOv! month, expenses paid, o tell onr Aaer&w. i9 Tencil, Orientil Jtvmr,u 1 IS ether new, se ' ful and enrioa articles. 14 circular, res. n)jll-w3ml SHAW 4 CLAUK, Biddeford, He. Cr A .TiOWTIIt 1 want to hire A tenuis ev 1.5 I J ry county at 175 a month, expenaei paid to seil ny new, cheap Family Sewinr Machines. , myll-wSa Address, S. MALlUOS, Alfred, Sfa.