Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1863 — Page 2

WEEKLY SENTINEL. MONDAY, AUGUST 10. The Public Printing. The Journal hag something to say about the corruption of public printers. Btaai R- Set eaova was onr a candidate fur that position. To secure it he agreed to give the editor of the Lafayette Courier fire per cent upon all his bill as public printer if be would use his Influence to elect him. He did, and Beut was elected. The contract to that effect was signed, waled and delivered- The editor foresaid came over to get his sbare of the spoils Buir repudiated bis contract, declared that it was invalid in law and not worth a d n. He refused to fork over. "When bis honor was appealed to he couldn't see It. Finally a law suit was threatened and a pub liceiposure of the whole affair. This brought the gentleman to terms. Under that pressure, and rot until then, did he let down and fulfill an honorable contract. This is the man that edits the court organ of His Excellency, O. F. II. Could a fittener man be found for such a position?

Troubled. The Mobtositls publish a military directory in the court organ, and they are exceedingly annoyed because we reproduced it. In its issue of yesterday that delectable sheet says that It has made an exposure of the misstatements which it charges wehave made in regard to the salaries of the officers enumerated in the directory. - In what? It says we have misrepresented the amount that one is receiving: We have given Col. IIollowat an opportunity to state upon bis own honor whether he has not received, direct! or indirectly, more than $500 per annum and the gratuity allowed him by the military auditing committee of $1,000, but be has failed to respond. When he states that he doee not get, or dots not expect to get a Colone!' paj, or what is equal to it, we will give him the benefit of the contradiction. The court organ uses the term ''lie" with the utmost freedom. We propose briefly to show how utterly regardless of truth, shamelessly so, is the physical and moral leper who conducts the organ of Mobtox. "Like master like slave." We have never said that Mr. Eolloway, as the court organ now dubs him, was "a Colonel or any other officer in the United States service." We admit that we publish unreliable testimony when we quote any statement from that print. But we did republish its "Military Directory of Indianapolis. Ind.," supposing that it would be evidence with the supporters of that print. Under the bead of "Executive Department" we copy the following: W. R. Hotlowaj, Colonel and Private Secretary to Governor. W. H. Schlüter, Major regiment Indiana, volunteers, A. D. C. to Governor. Lax. Noble, Adjutant General of Indiana. These distinguished gentlemen are all engaged in the service of Indiana. The court organ's Military Directory publishes them so daily. Will the court organ deny that Major Sculateb, A. D. C. to the Governor, gets the pay of a Major in the United States service? Will it deny that Lax. Noble, Adjutant General of Indiana, gets the pay of a Colonel in the cavalry service of the United States? We inquire what regulation of the United Statw service entitles them to such compensation? Mr. Hollowat is placed in the court journal in the same category with Messrs. Schlatke and Noble, and without any distinction except so far as title or rank is concerned. The militia law of the State provides that the Governor's staff are entitled to the same pay, in the time of war or public danger, that the same rank receives in the Un'tad States service. The court organ puts down Mr. Hollowat, in its Mi.'itary Directory, as Colonel. We have at no time said that Maj. Schlatt, or Col. Noble, or Maj. Tebbill, or Lieutenant General Oliver P. Mobtox get pay from the United States which their rank would entitle them to if they were in that service. Major Schlatek and Col. Noble do, however, get that pay while in the service of the Executive Department of Indiana, and we know no reason why "Colonel" Hollowat is not equally entitled to it while performing a similar duty. Will the court organ explain the distinction? The court organ lies in stating that we have admitted that Colonel Hollowat has only received $1 ,500 a year while he has been acting aa "Colonel and Private Secretary to Governor Mobtos." When the gallant Colonel, whom we regard as Infinitely a better man than His Excellency, will, upon bis honor, state that he has received no more than $1.500 a year, directly or indirectly, from the time he has occupied his present position, and that he expects no more, we will give him the benefit of the statement and place his compensation at jtwt what he gives it. Is this the only error that the Journal has found or can find in the salaries in the military directory? If so, what a little matter to make so much fuss about. It U not the matter of the salary of Colonel, or Mr. Hollowat which troubles the court journal and the Republican party, but it is the exposure of the gros squandering of the people's money upon political favorites and for partisan purposes, which makes them tremble as did the handwriting upon the wall of a corrupt court. The Kentucky E;leetlit. . We gather the following items in reference to the recent election in Kentucky from the papers of that State: The voting population at the Mount Washington precinct is about three hundred and forty or three hundred and fifty. Of this number three hundred and twenty-five would hart toted the Wickliffe ticket. The polls were opened and twenty-one) votes were taken, when Cpt. Smith asked to look at the poll-books, and informed the citizens that the Wickliffe ticket could not be Tottd for. and ordered the votes already taken stricken off the poll books. He said such were his order, and so ended the election farce at the Mount Washington precinct. If such an election can stand, all law on the subject may as well be abolished, and hereafter save the expense to the State, and quietly submit to military appointments to office. And yet the Journal of Wednesday, with such facts before it, says: . "There never was more fairness, more justice, more freedom in an election, than was practiced and accorded by the friends of the Union last Monday." A gentleman from Btoomfteld writes that only nineteen votes could be mustered for Bram lette k Co. The Democratic ticket was suppressed, or it would have had a majority of over 10U. The number of votes polled in Bath county was 630, of which Bramlett received 525, and Wickliffe 55. The Democracy were prevented from voting by military authority. No one was permitted to rote the Democratic ticket at Cloverport or Hardinsburg. The people of Portland were disfranchised by force. They are now told by the organ that they are themselves to blame, having disfranchised themselves by disloyaltv. Daviess Cocjttt. The vote in Owensburg for Congress stoodr McHenry 45, Teaman 255. The name of Wickliffe and the balance of the Democratic ticket was ruled off by military force. "' The whole number of men called for ander the draft, says an exchange, is four hundred and fifty thousand. What the authority for this statement is we do not know. The New York Times states that one-third of this number will secure exemption by the payment of three hundred dollars each. This will net to the Government fifty million dollars. R"TTb question of peace, therefore, so far aa tbe Democratic party is concerned, is not in order, nor will it be until tbe opposition is responsible for the conduct of tbe Government. Iu programme then will be peace and tbe Uaioi but, peace or war, tbe Union. New York World.

Kentucky election We zive elsewhere such returns as have reach

ed us of the election which took place in Kentucky yesterday. Brarolette is elected Governor by a large majority , and the'-Uuio Democratic" cmdid lies for Coneress are also chosen, we pre-' sume. in all thedisrrict-. The result, of course, is easily explained. - The fetate w put uuder tuartiil law by Gen. Burnside. and ihe military were instructed to be present at the r.lliu "as sist" the officers of election in seeii that none bufloyal" men were allowed to vote. Apain. it was ännouuced tbat men who voted the Wick liffe ticket would be pat to work on the fortifications and their property taken for military purposes. In some places a few Wickliffe men were allowed to vote, while in others, as at Portland, opposite here, and at Paris, every Wickliffe voter was told his vote would not be taken, and be was sent away, or taken iu charge by a squad of roldiers and conveyed to the military prison. As between the principles of the men compos ing tbe two tickets we do not think there was enough difference to warrant the course pursued by the military agents of the Administration. The couvcntiou which nominated the liraniiette or "Union Democratic" ticket adopted a platform in full accord with the views ol the masses of Democrats North, but a very general suspicion ;wevailed that the party, when they got into poweV, would not abide by these pledges, hot would become the subservient tools or the Ad ministration in carrying out its schemes of subju gation. Hence the bringing out of the ticket beaded with tbe name or Oov. wickhne, ana which would undoubtedly have been elected but for military interference. Both tickets professed to be "Union, snd we do not doubt they were so. Whether Kentucky will be more apt to remain loyal under Gov. Bramlette than it would have been under Gov. Wickliffe, we think exceedingly questionable. N. A. Ledger. In connection with the foregoing we copy the following items in reference to the Kentucky election from the Louisville Democrat of jes terdav: We are clad to know tbat some of the strong est Administration men look gloomily at the manner in which the State election was managed. No man who has any regard for the rights of States can make any defense or apology for it. Let those rejoice iu success who can rejoice over an election supervised at Washington. We have various authentic accounts of the suppression or votes in different places; but we shall try to avoid any statements not authenticated. The plain truth is, the people of this State were disfranchised and deprived of their right to vote according to the Constitution and laws of the State. The lesson taught is ominous. What are we to expect next? is the inquiry. This is no election, is the remark of men who have alwavs stood ftrmlv by the Union. " A Lieutenant came to the polls atMount Washington; with fifty cavalry soldiers, after 24 votes had been polled for Wickliffe and three for Brarolette.and demanded to see the poll book. He ordered the Judges to suppress the names of all Democrats, which was done. The history of the election of yesterday closes out all pretensions of the Administration party in this State to a union with the Democracy of the North. We shall now be done with that absurdity. There was no vote in Owen county of con sequence.. I he military were at the polls. 1 he people were intimidated by the presence of arms. At Newcastle, before breasfast, seven votes were cast for Wickliffe. After that the Demo cratic licket was suppressed entirely. At Bards town, Lieuteuant Colonel Butler, of Indiana, suppressed the entire vote for Wickliffe and other Democrats. France and the Southern Confederacy. No compromise with rebels. This is the word now all along the line. Unconditional submission. The seceded States are only to come back ou conditious fixed by Abolitionists It seems now that an opportunity is offered to restore this country which may be lost by some adverse turn of events. The Vice President of the Southern Confederacy was stopped on his way to Washington with a flag of truce; ostensibly his mission only related to tbe mode of conducting the war; but no one will credit tbe story that the Vice President of the Government at Richmond would be ser.t to Washington on that mission alone. The men at Washington could not compromise their dignity, and we shall not know what the mission was to be until it is too late to know for any benefit it will be. It is now reported that this mission was to present some terms to our Government previous to offering terms to another power. Napoleon, the power to-day in Europe, has taken Mexico and established an empire, which will be a sort of dependence of France. He will hold what he has obtained. Now that his army has done its work, a wise policv will secure and consolidate this French dependence. Let this be borne in mind, and reflect if Napoleon intends that tbe great republic of the United Stales shall be the neighbor of bis new dominions. He obviously has no such intentions. If this Union was restored to day all of Napoleon's projects in Mexico would come to an abrupt ending. He has, no doubt, provided against such a result, as far as human skill can provide. lie bis been anxious to stop the civil war in this country. Ho is sorry about the effusion of blood, very sorry. If he can only stop the war and establish the independence of the Southern Con fed era cy. he has made the point that is essential to his plans. Slidell has been in France, and busy; and be has a tempting bait to offer tbe French Emperor, an alliance offensive and defensive with the Southern Confederacy, possession of the finest territory in the world xu 1 tbe richest, closely con nected with the Southern States, with the prospect of a monopoly of their trade and commerce. Ho and they will command the Gulf of Mexico and all its vast advantages. In short, France will bo on a path of glory never before opened to any European power; and it is easily and safely trav eled. We believe there is to dav a secret treaty be tween Nnpaleon and the Southern Confederacy, and that it was made or in contemplation before Napoleon started out with his plans in Mexico. He will try to enlist other powers in this scheme of securing a division of this country; and it is likely our Government will lend a helping hand by a quarrel with England, if we are to credit recent reports. Now, what would wisdom dictate to our Government? Certainly we should not omit the present opportunity to settle our affairs and pre rent the consummation of these projects which certainly exist. Our recent success offers a chance for diplomacy tbnt has not existed before. and that may not exist acain. Time will bring complications that no skill or power can unravel. We may, indeed, fight all tbe world; we have beard brave talk of that gort; but although we don t admit that we can t whip all the world, it is wise not to try the experiment. Now is the time for magnimity, not dignity; now is the occasion to be generous, to build np again, and not to go on to break down any further. We, howerer, do cot expect tbat tbe men at Washington will do anything wisely. They arc a Godforsaken set. "They are given over," aa General Cass says, "to judicial blindness." Louisville Democrat. Tbe Poller af the Administration in Helercnce to states lletisrnlng' to their Allegiance. Says the Washington dispatch to the New York Herald: The official organ of the War Department this morning announced that none of tbe Southern States should be allowed to return to the Union without first having abolished slavery within their limits. This policy finds no favor, however, with the President nor anv of the members of bis Cabinet, with the exception of the Secretaries of War and o; the Treasury. All the other Cab ioe Ministers are in favor of carrying out the doctrine announced in the inaugural message of rresident Lincoln that the war should be waged for the preservation or tne Union. 1 he emanci pation question is an interpolation, and was not included in the original objects of tbe war. Unfortunately for those who urge that the war shall be protracted until African slavery has been wiped out from the South, the policy ol tbe Government has been fixed, tbat the Southern rebellion shall be considered only as a domestic insurrection. Tbe Government, to avoid tbe interference of foreign powers, bas studiously avoided according to the rebels the character ol alien enemies. L oder these circum stances, when the insurrection has been quelled the States will of course return to their ttalu$ in quo ante bellum, with all their rights under the Constitution intact, and to require of them guar antees for the abolition of slavery would neccssi täte a local change of the whole policy upon which the war has hitherto been conducted br the national Government. The radicals insist that tbe seceded States, at tbe termination of the war. shall either be required to enact emancipation laws or be treated ai Territories; but this facI lion at present k ta a minority in the Admin istration. :

STATE ITE.TIS. The following preample snd resolutions

were adopted by tbe Normal School at Columbus, Indiana, on the 31st of July, 1863r " - Whekeas, In this and other parts of the State t litre seems to be a growing sensitiveness on the part of Trustees and patrons relative to tbe political sentiments of teachers; therefore, Resolved. 1. That in our opinion political sen timents, unless uisloval, have nothing to do in determining the qualifications of the teacher. 2. That no teacher should, in his professional position or relation, inculcate partisan sentiments or principles. 3. That the teachers may, snd, on prooer oc casions should, teach the principles of the Government, at the same time :nculcate love of country, devotion to the Union and obedience to the laws. 4. That we honestly believe that Trustees and patrons owe it to the schools snd to the country to see well to it that no man of doubtfurii-yalty be entrusted with the responsible duty of traiuing tbe young. 6. 1 hat in our opinion neither Trustees nor patrons have any legal or constitutional right to call teachers to accoudt for either the judicious expression or inculcation of loyal sentiments and principles J. M. OLCOTT. Sup't. ' A. M. Gbahax, Secretary. MlLITAKT OTERATIOS8 15 BbOWN CotiSTT. Last week the county of Brown w.is invaded by a battalion of U. S soldiers, consisting of about two companies. Tbe object of the vi'it was stated to be the arrest of deserters and persons harboring them. 1 hey encamped in the north east part of the county, ten miles from the county seat. From thence various detachments were sent out, who proceeded to take forcible posses sion of all the horses that suited their fancy, saying that they acted, in so doing, according to or ders Irom General Willcox. Two ministers of the Baptist Church, going to their appointments, were unhorsed many miles from home. Horses hitched at a meeting house were taken. In sev eral instances ladies were compelled to walk from church. No receipts were given the parties thus despoiled, so far as the public know, and the writer or this article conversed with a number of victims. So violent was the conduct of this body of soldiery in the bus'.rcss of "pressing" that citizens bei;an to suspect that some of Morgan's men were playing their old game of horse steal ing, and propose-1 to meet force with force, but were dissuaded Irom that course by the earnest request of influential citizens, under the impression that the expedition was sent down purposely to exasperate the citizens and drive them into such an outbreak as would give the military authorities a pretext to declare martial law in the county. W hen they left, many of the horses "pressed were turned loose, and their owners have not jet got them. During their stay, squads of ten or fifteen would quarter themselves upon the citizens, and enliven the occasion with pleasing discourses about butternuts, copperheads, kc, the only compensation offered for the hospitality thus accorded them. When they, had pitched their tents, and the fact had become generally known, the bitterest Abolitionists of the neighborhood assembled there, and shortly afterwards Democratic citizens were arrested upon the charge of harboring deserters, without a written accusation, and without competent evidence. Some have been taken to Indianapolis who are known to be innocent, and against whom not a shade of evidence can be adduced. In one instance, to a friend of one who was under arrest, information of the nature of the charge against him was refused. Two unoccupied and worthless houses bad been burned in the neighborhood not many days before the invasion, and it was notorious that two deserters had committed the crime. But inqui ries were put on foot to saddle it upon Democratic citizens. Suppose the effort had been sue cessful what then? Would the accused have been taken to Indianapolis? Where would have been the jurisdiction to try the offenders? In Brown county. The admitted culprits were deserters. To arrest aud try thtro in military courts. ho one doubts of the propriety, or legality. A citizen is not within military jurisdiction. The moral effect of this visitation of soldiery is disastrous in the extreme. It revives and intensifies party bitterness. It makes Democrats feel that they no longer have rights, except what their own strong arms give them. They say that at no time have troops been furnished to the protection of Democrats; that the dirtiest scavenger in community can lodge a complaint against a Democrat, and at once the military authorities are on the qui vice. The influence of those who have striven to keep down civil war at home, is every day becoming weaker, and the conviction tbat we are drifting into revolution is wide spread among the intelligent. Under such circumstances, the military authorities should first send to the scene of trouble, when an occasion is presented, a discreet man, such an one as provost marshal General Mans field, to inquire into the necessity of the intervention of soldiery. When troops are sent to the country, it is impossible to keep all of them within reasonable bounds. In the instance above alluded to, the officers seemed inclined, in the main, to give no cause for trouble, and some of them were exceedingly courteous and discreet. A public meeting at the county seat of Brown is called for Saturday next, when an elaborate report of the "invasion," its causes, kc, will be prepared for publication. We copy the following from the New Albany Ledger. Perhaps Captain Howaed is a Democrat, and that may account for his dismissal from service: Captain Andrew J. Howard, of the 61st Indiana, who was dismissed from the service of the United States by direction of the President, reached his home in Jeffersonville on Saturday evening last. What influences were breught to bear to effect his dismissal are unknown, as no charges were preferred against him, and the receipt of the order dismissing him was the first intimation he bad tbat bis services were no longer needed Captain H. commanded one of the best drilled and disciplined companies in the bist; was always prompt and efficient in the discharge of his duty, and at Stone river, as acting M ijor of the regiment, behaved in tbe most gallant manner. The entire company, and a large number of his brother officers, have united iu a petition to the President that tbe order be revoked. How men like Capt. H., who have been two years in the service, enduring the hardships and privations of a soldier's life, ami freely ricking their life on the battle field whenever duty required it, can be set down as disloyal, is a little beyond our comprehension. The Democracy of Clinton county will bold a nominating convention at Frankfort on Thursday, the 13tb of August. Judge Tcbpie will address the convention. The people of Indianapolis were blessed with a refreshing shower cf rain yesterday. They should be thankful, therefore, to the "gigantic efforts" of O. P. M. We are creditably informed that a responsibility, weighing about fifteen poundd, was left at the door of a Lafayette merchant on Monday evening last. Lafayette Courier. Thanks to the unparalleled energy and "gigantic efforts" of 0. P. M. Tbe muster-in of the 66th regiment Indiana volunteers has finally been recognized by the War Department. Several home guard companies have bean regularly organized in Orange county since the Morgan raid, and the members are rapidly perfecting tbemscl ves in the manual of arms and the maneuvers of the soldier. A number of home guard companies hare also lately been formed in Harrison, Crawford and Washington counties. We recommend the people all over the State to organize home guard companies, and if arms can not be procured from the State, let tbe companies who can not get them from the authorities furnish themselves ' Only 173 effective men remain in the 1 4th Indiana regiment, which left this State 1,040 strong two years ago for the seat of war in Western Virginia. Such fs war. , . About one child per week is reported to our Township Trustee as having been found at somebody's door, or some place else, too young to give any account of itself. These Infants are all "Topsiea" saving their color they have no parents; tike Topsey and Jonah's gourd, they growed" in the night." Journal. The court organ should have added that these remarkable productions are justly attributable to the "gigantic energy of O. P. M. to raise an army. How fortunate It is for the State that we have so useful a Governor. Tbe Bloomington Republican says that tbe wheat, rye, barley and grass crops of Monroe county have turned out unusually well. . - -

It is rot prcbable that many of thoie who

lost horses by the Morgan raid will recover them. Some gentlemen who went to Cincinnati nave come home disappoint Gen. Hobson took for bis own men the best horses, and the balance are scattered over a country several hundred miles in extent. One hundred and forty men for the invalid corps arrived on the steamer Liberty from Gen. Rosecrans' army last Sunday night, en route for Louisville. They represented twenty . different regiments. Patients is Nkw Albant Hospitals. The total number of patients in tbe various military hospitals of New Albany is as follows: No. 1, 141; No. 2. 22; No. 3, 118; No. 4. 254: No. ;, 169; No. 6, 285. Total, 9d'J. The Democracy of Spencer county will hold their nominating convention on tbe first Saturday of September. Tax Cbops. The late frosts and lone con tinued drouth are going to make the corn aud potato crops in this vicinity verv slender, if not destroy them altogether Bluffton Banner. The Democracy of Carroll county will assemble at Camden, on Saturday, August 22, to nominate a ticket to be supported at the Oc tober election. Several distinguished speakers will be present upon the occasion. There was a rnot refreshing shower of rain in tha northern part of the State on Tuesday, which the Fort Wayne Sentinel says will be of incalculable benefit to the agricultural interests. From the Philadelphia Age. An Outrage TJpoti & Minister of the Gospel, because he Is a Brother of the llon.C. L. Vallandigham. It affords ua pleasure to publish the following letter from the Rev. James L. Vallandigham, of Newark, Delaware. The persecution to which this gentleman has been subjected is another evidence of the partisan malice which rules the hour, we feel assured that it will meet the reprobation of every citizen who values the peace and good order cf society: Newark. July 25, 1663. Ebitobs op the Age: Military arrests have become SO corarnou ns scarcely to attract notice; still, when a minister of the gospel is arrested, some explanation would seem to be necessary. On the 17th inst.. the Deputy Provost Marshal of this State, with a poi tiou of his guard, came to Newark for the purpose of arrestintr three of our citizens on specific charges. Having accomplished their object, they were about to return to Wilmington. It was, however, suggested by certain persons that there were others Democratic neighbors who ought to be arrested, and my name was mentioned. I was accordingly nr rested, together with several other gentlemen of the first respectability in tbe community. Specific charges were now sought for, but not a single individual not even those who procured my arrest would dare to say, on oath, that I had ever violated any law of the State of Delaware, or of the United States, or had ever done anything or said anything against the Constitution or the Government. I was accordingly released, the Provost Marshal informing me that there were no charges against me. The same was the case with the gentlemen who were arrested with me James H. Ray, Esq.. Dr. N. H. Clark, and Messrs William and John Reynolds, jr.. no charges, substantiated by oath, could be brought against them, and they, too, were set at liberty. And now, it may be inquired, "why are you pointed out as one who ouyht to be arreted?" To this question I answer, that several re isons have been suggested aa the "procuring cause" of my arrest a card which I recently published in denial of a ftle and slanderous charge against my brother, the Hon. C. L. Vail ndigham a few unpleasant words with a Republican neighbor in reference to a matter in no way connected with war, politics, or the state of the country the fact that I am accustomed, every Sibbath, to pray that the Lord would bring this war to a Speedy close, and grant us aj;ain prosperity and peace. But though I may not be able just now certainly and positively to eive the cause. I will state a few facts that may throw some light on the subject: 1. My name is Vallandigham. 2. lama Democrat. 3. At the commencf merit of the war I announced to my people, that in war as well as in peace, I was resolved to preach only the Gos pel "determined not to know anything among them save Jcu3 Christ and Him crucified" and I hnve strictly adhered to the determination. In censcqueuce of this, I have been, for the last two years, the object of the petty pite of a few indi viduals. who hare again and again threatened me with arrest. They have at length accomplished their purpose have had their malice gratified and now I trust 1 may be allowed peaceably and quietly to discharge my ministerial duties the thing which I most earnestly desire; for I hold that in times like these, as well as in all other times, the minister of the Gospel best and most effectively serves his God and his coun try promotes the interests alike of piety and of patriotism, bv exhibiting the meek and centle spirit of his Divine Master, and atteuding faithfully to the legitimate duties of his sacred office. Very respectfully yours, James L Vallandigham. Union League Secret We do not consider it of the least importance what sort of mummery the Union Leagues have adopted for their secret councils. It ought to be enough for the people to know that the Republican organization is now run in the darkness of cellars and garrets. A correspondent, however, whoass'Jmes to have penetrated the odious mysteries of the order, sends us the following as a portion ot the instructions given to the initiated: When you first meet a member, present your left hand and sty: "How are you. Major?" Answer "Comfortably well." "Are you a member of our Union League?" Answer "Prove me." "How phall I prove you?" Aiiscr " By positions." lleie comes in whit nrght be called acorn maud, for the person asking the question above set forth, says: "Take poVitions, snd I'll call them." The person who answers the questions then raises his led hand perpenliularly over his head, at which time you say, "Washington " He then drops his arm to a horizontal f option, and you say, "Jefferson." He then drops his left band on the left thigh, and you say, "J.ickson." He then raise hi left hand to his breast, and you say, "Union." He then joins the thumb aod third finjrer of his left hand at this time you must also join the thumb and third finrer, as he does; then both of your hands meet, and you put your thumb and third finger inside his, and you say. "League." All this is done in a hhorter time than I eau tell you. When a member is going into the lodge, the Diissword at the first doons,,Liernal igilance: at the second door, "Is the Price of Liberty.' When a member enters the lodge, he salute the President by holding up his left hand fore finger When he leaves tbe lodge he holds up his right hand two fore fingers. When a U 'ion League man gets into fight at night, he cries out. "I, I. If any of the brothers are around and willing to assist him. they cry out, "What, what." The ConacrlDtlen. In answer to a communication Irom the M-yor of Baltimore, Secretary Stanton telegraphed the following: "Major General Sehen ck: "Colored troops will be credited to the State, the same aa any other troops. "E. M. Staxtox, "Secretary of War From the following note of Provost Marshal General Frv it will be seen that be has decided that, with the consent cf parents, minors may be accepted as substitutes for those, taken by the conscription: "Pbovost Mabshal Gekkbal's Orrici,, " Washington, D. C, July 22. ?R. Grant Durnell, Esq , Philadelphia, Pa. "Substitutes between IB and 20 will be ac cepted with consent ol parents. "James B. Fbt, "Provost Marshal General "(Official:) He.xbt Stoe. A. A. G." SlCBITABT CUASE A 50 BIS DaI'GHTEB. Hon. S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, left this city by the Ho clock train this forenoon, in a special car, for Philadelphia, New York, and Newport, it. I. During the absence of the Secretary it la re ported tbat he will give away in mamape to Sen ator Sprague (ex Governor and ex Major General of "tbe State of Rhode Island and Providei.ce Plantations,") his accomplished daughter. Miss Kate Chase. It is said that the ceremony will take place at Newport; but of this we are not certain. Washington liepubucan, July 27,

ALL SORTS OF PA HAG IIA PUS.

ver twenty millions of Dostal currencv have been issued. Chicago asd the Smiths There are four hundred and fifty-two Smiths iu Chicago, fiftytwo of whom are named John. The New York Tribune proposes to "an swer a fool according to his folly." Greeley, old ana garrulous, is g' ug to talk to himself, says Prentice. , . . General Mitchell recently sent a cargo of one hundred and six alleged frail women from Nashville to Cincinnati. Was not Bumside's headquarters already well enough supplied? Nix. "Olivxb Twist" asked for more. The oldest living graduate of Yale College, is Joshua Dewey, of Brooklyn, New York, who was graduated in I7d7, seventy six years ago. He is ninety six years old. Theuext is the Rev. Daniel Waldo, 1768, now one hundred years old. He resides in Syracuse. Washington telegrams, seeming to emanate from the War Department, talk of having 1U.000 negroes in arm, in the valley of the Mississippi, by autumn. We expect not, but if so, what need of drafting white men? The editor of the Baltimore American says he has heard, from a respectable eye witness, iht Geu. Hooker, in his parting address to his officers there, said, "That the army of the Potomac fought with the rebels two hours out of the twenty four, and with the Government at Washington the other twenty-two " The St. Louis Republican says that a calm revision hereafter of Gen. Curtis' government in that department will, it is believed, show an amount of incompetency aud partiality which makes it matter for regret tbat such a man bad ever committed to him po responsible a trust. The New York correspondent of the London Times contrasts well the indignation expressed by the New York Tribune at the hanging of a negro at New burgh for an outrage upon a white woman, with the mild manner iu which the same print reprobated the atrocities of Montgomery' ne groes upon the unarmed and unoffending people of Darien. . Rf.pcblicans for Dtscxiox. Rev. O. A. Brownson was a Republican candidate for Congress in New Jersey last fall, aDd he must be good authority in reginl to Republican views and purposes. In the July issue of his Review, he says: "It is no secret now that the leaders of the Republican party were prepared if they could retain the border slave States, to let South Carolina and the Gulf States eo, and form, if they cboose, an independent confederacy." For proof of this see Indiana State Journal. On lt Oxe Recruit out of FirrT-rouR DbawxI Out of liftv-tour men from Nantucket and the Vineyard, who have presented themselves to the Bo:ird of Enrollment in New Bedford, fifty-one have received exemption papers, two have paid $.300, and one has passed. A Brilliant Trovost Marshal Provost Marshal Fry, famous for his foolish interpreta tion ot the law, has decided that the certificateof a parent that he or she desires one of his or her sous eiemptol from the draft, should be filed with a Pro v ot-t Marshal of the district before the draft is made. The fact that a vast number of the new men sent to camp from various localities are $ubttiluln, shows that we were right in saving enough men could be obtained under the volunteering system, with proper bounties. The only differeuce now is, that individuals, and not the Government, pay the bounties. Watching tue Conscripts It will take a great many boldiers of t he regular nrmy to watch the conscripts. The Washington Star, of yester day, tells u-: "Detachments fiom the various regiments of the Army ol the Potomac couiinue to go North for dratted men. I o day the following left on that mission, viz: Detachments of the 17lh,59th and im New Yoik; the Sth, lUUta and 111th Pennsylvania: the .'tli Connecticut; eighteen men from other Pennsylvania and Ohio regiments, and sixteen mcii from the 2d division of the 2d corps. A Philadelphia Inquirer writer saw Süddll lately in l'.iri., riding along in a splendid carriage accompanied by his daughter, who was languidly beautiful. The coachmen were profusely wigged and powdered, the old gentleman leaned on a gold he f led cane and smiled placidly. Slidell is vcrv much patronized by young centleraen with united States pasi?orts in their pockets aud oaths of aJlcgialice fiesh t'poil their lips. A IltBRfc-W Bi.SkVOLE.NT ObdER. A CODventioti of the "Sons of the Covenant," a He brew benevolent order somewhat resembling the Odd Fellows, I in session in Cleveland, Ohio A prominet object of this order is the establishment f orphan asylums and colleges for giving Hebrew vouth a theological and teilend educa tion. .- The order extends throughout the United States, and contains hont four thousand mem bers The convention consists of seventv-five delegates, from the Grand Lodges of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky National Debilitt. The Newburyport Herald, i'i alluding to the larte per cent, of exemptions granted by the enrolling officers, says: "One of two thing is true. There is either much perjury, or we are the most sickly people th it ever hfd an existence If it be true that the young men from twenty to fortv five are so diseased and debilita'ed as is reported, what is to be the phsical cotid tion of the coming generation, of which these are to be the fathers? This is a more fearful thought than even the rebellion it,elf." Not Dispostn to Go. The draft is but the merc.-l farce in om of the New England districts For ex4ni'!e, hi the Fourth (Boston) District, the hole number examined last week wm l.l.'iö.ol hm 337 weie exempted, 70 paid three hundred dollars, which makes 1,007 that got clc-ar, 108 uflViel Mi'j-ütute, and ten were, passed as tit lor do' v. Tim, less than one in a hundred of the rigintl conscripts go iulo the army; and i his, ton. in a section of country that only r-tiicl the recognition of the negrp to "cau.se eerv ro id leading to the national capital to sw.ir.n aith recruits " At this rate it will require ninety midions of conscripts to obtain the "nine hundred thousand men" so enthusiastically promised Father Abrah nn by the radicals. Henry Ward Iteecher has jriveti pnld'city, on th. other ride of the water, to the opinion that, in case the Norili accomplishes a lull and complete subjugatiou of the S mill, a standing army of two hundred thousand men will be necessary to preset ve our supremacy. This is a fact well known to every reflecting person, but the Abolition leaders have not heretofore had the courage to present it to the people They have it now from the high priest of Northern secessionist, and we hope they will digest it. Less than twenty thousand mtn have heretofore constituted our standing army. New, after sacrificing half a million, if no more, and throwing the country into irredeemable debt, we are to have the satisfaction of supi-orting two hundred thousand soldiers to perpetuate our follies. If we es cape even with that infliction we shall be a happy people. How do Abolitionists like the prospects aa pictured by their more than Delphian oracle? HOW THE DSAFT IS INTERFERING WITH Manufacturers. The Philadelphia Boot and Shoe Reporter of this week says: At present our jobbers are receiving large orders, and they find stock and facilities for immediate production much below the demand. The draft is likely to further reduce the number of journeymen shoemakers, which are already scarce, and producers are finding it much harder work to get the shoes than to sell tbem. Tbe Boston Shoe and Leather Reporter likewise testifies to the same fact. It says: Labor is scarce and high, and the draft is making fearful havoc among the journeymen in our manufacturing districts CoNscaimox Eoict. The rebel President has fulminated a conscription edict, drafting all ages South, from eighteen to forty-five The edict of Jeff. Davis will be used as a precedent here, to follow him, hi his despotism; but it is against such despotism we are fighting, snd why, therefore, should we establish like ones at home N. Y. Express. A Significant Remark Concerning the RtBicL Conscription. The Raleigh (N. C) Progress says: There is nothing in the proclamation of the President calling for more troops, at which the country can complain, for he is only exercising the authority given him by Congress. And as we have said, the condition of affairs is sch that we must have more troops or abandon tbe cause. The rebel officers confined in the Old Capitol prison at Washington are to be sent to Johnson's Island, near Sandusky, and it is probable that all the rebel officers in the hands of the Federals will be placed la confinement at tbat point. ;

A North Carolina paper acknowledges that

a movement is on foot in that State for a recon struction of tbe Union; and, from the manner in which it speaks, the movement would appear to be of a somewhat extensive nature. Relieved fbom Dctt. Capt. J.tmes CuttsT of the 11th infantry, who disgrachd himself by spying ihroueh the key hole of a lady's room at the Burnett House, Cincinnati, has been rel eved from duty as Judge Advocate of the Department of Ohio, by command of Gen. Burnside. Major tlenrr L. Barnett, 2d Olno cavalry, haa been appointed Judge Advocote in place of Cutts. A correspondent of the Providence Journal states that iu a store-house which was taken ou Morris Island, our troops found a large quantity of clothing. The rebel soldiers were well clad, having just received a supply of better light blue pantaloon' than our trooos have. These clothes Imd come from New York by way of Nassau. Rev. Rugald Sinclair, pastor of the Baptist church in Soho, Canada West, is 9S years old, and yet preaches to his people every Sabbath. He has in his church a member whom he baptized 68 years ago, and who left Scotland for the sake of enjoying the ministry of his old pastor, who had previously emigrated to Canada. This is a remarkable case of longevity, and of bearing fruit in old age. The Department of the Interior have received notice of the acceptance of Agricultural College LT'ut by the States of New Hampshire and Connecticut. The former State will receive 937 piere of script. r 150.tMKi acres, and the latter 1,125 pieces of script, or ltW.OlH) acres. From the Cincinnati pr"e Current, Ang S. Financial and Commercial Nummary for the Past Week. The dullness of the money market continues unabated, and but a limited amouut of business paper offering. Money is a dnn:, and a large amount of idle capital is in the hands of those who would be willing to invest it safely for a few months at 5 to 6 per cent. The busiuess in Government vouchers has been greatly curtailed by the late order from the War Department, which reaus as follows: ' "Hereafter no officer or agent tinder the con trol of the War Department, disbursing public money, will pay any claim or account presented through agents or collectors, except on regular power of attorney, executed after the account or claim is due anu payable, and unless such agent or collector is considered by the dis'iursinc offi cer amply able to reimburse the United States, or the disbursing olhccr, in case such claim nr ac couut shall, sub-equent to piymrnt, prove tobe unjust or fraudulent, and when an account is presented in person by an individual who is not known to the disbursing officer, the latter will require su h evidence of identity as will secure tue Uovernment against iraua. Under this order, the transfer of vouchers seems to be out of the question, but they may be used as collaterals, or a power of attorney can be given by the original owner with the vouch ers, and no transfer made, arranging it that the holder who presents them may be made the own er's attorney in fact for their collection. This course of the War Department hs been rendered necessary by tbe numerous fraudulent acts of Quartermasters. Gold has not changed materially during the week, and will, probably, remain about as it has been tbe past week, until another great victory or iifcleat will put it up or down. The quotations for exchange, coin and securities at the close last evening were as follows: RÜTING. SELILNG Nw York par. kprem (io4 2v27 prem. 283.30 rrem. .cr 15a 20 prem. prem. bemand not, 26a'-?7 prem. prem. Kentucky bank notes. , .. prem. .... Indiana State not h'z l prem. .... Orders oc Washington, It dis. .... Certificates 1!' dia. .... Quartermasters' ouchrrs, city 1,S3 din. .... Qusr'erm aster' Voucherc, country..... no Rale. The weather, in all this region of the West, has been all that could bo desired to bring for ward the corn, since our last. Heavy and fre quent showers, nnd a hot, sultry atmosphere, the thermometer ranging from bU to 9j deg., and the corn is represented as doing well. That which was injured by the frot in Indiana is, to a great extent, pist saving; but the injury was but partial, and chiefly confined to that planted in low wet lands. Such weather as we have had the the last week, if it continues during- the present month, will make a good corn crop beyond a rea sonable doubt. Business has been moderately active in most departments. Fresh ground flour was in better demand at t'ie close, but there has been no aale for old. Wheat was iu good demand, at the clos, at ou. quotations. The crop of winter wheat, in all this section of country will not be over two thirds of what it was last season. This is what the information we published last May indicated, and this Js now known to be the fact. In Indiana and all west of there, the winter wheat is an average crop, and the qualitv of all the West very good, and the crop saved in the best possible condition. Spring wheat is reported to us as a full crop, aud, in many sections, har vested. We learn from parties who have been on the lower Mississippi since the fall of Yicksburg and Port Hudson, that the corn crop, now nearly ripe in Mississippi ami Louisiana is exceedingly pood, and as regards the quantity produced, is prodigious All the cotton lind 60uth of Yicksburg was planted in corn, with but an exception here and there, and the same is the case in Alabama, we presume. This will give a greater abundance of corn in the Southern Stales than .was ever known before. Whisky has been in good demand aud has ad vai.eed to 43c. The advance asked for provisions checked the demand and the market has beeu very quiet but firm. Linseel oil declined to 90c. and the market is unsettled; it is in light supply, and iu the jobbing wav $1 has been obtained. The new crop of flax seed is now ready for crushing, and. as we have alreidr stated, is double what it was last yenr. The contract price with the crushers is $1 25, but there is a larj:e amount of independent seed and it is held at $1 50. The indications are that a heavy specu la tire business will be done in seed this fall and winter. The demand for wool has quieted down since the decline in gold, and the market is less firm at 6i)75c It is estimated tbat fully one half the clip is still iu the hands of farmers. Nails hare declined materially by the act of the manufacturers. The President and ibe States. The New York Evening Post is suffering in expressible agonies over the apprehension that the President may be persuaded "to readmit the rebel States into the Union with their rights of property in elares acknowledged." Pray, who made A. Lincoln judge of the terms upon which States should be admitted into the American Union? By what sort of secret jugglery was he sent to Washington to construct, reconstruct or tear down the Uuion? Who commissioned him to barga-n away the Constitution of the United States and build up a government with the rotten planks of his Abolition platform? The duty of the Executive is not to make new laws for the republic, but to enforce those already enacted. Louisiana has a right to representation in the Federal Congress whenever she chooses to obey the laws and send representatives to Wash ington. Lincoln can neither readmit the State nor keep it out. He can lawfully neither acknowledge nor refuse to acknowledge any local law of Louisiana not conflicting with the consti tutional conditions of Union. Matters hare come to a strange pass if the President can shuffle np the States, like a pack of cards, and deal off a hand from the bottom or the top, like a traveling steamboat gambler. The proposition ts one of the most preposterous of these preposterous times. -Milwaukee News. "What Constitutes a State!" This question bas recently been answered by Mojor General John A. Logon in a speech at Cairo: "Let me say to all opnosers of the war Tbe time will come when men composing this great army will come to their homes. They have watched the progress of events with interest. They have had their eyes upon these unmitigated cowards, these opponents of the country and the Administration, (und the Administration, I contend, ts the country,) and when they return it will do the soul of every loyal man good to see the summary manner in which they will caue these sneaks snd peace agitators to seek their boles " If the Administration is the country we must have a most delectable country, indeed, if we take Oen. Logan's many denunciations of the Administration as good authority, rio man in the Union has been more severe in condemnation of the Administration than he, and if he now reasons well, none have abused the countrv more tban himself. The great body of the people will scarcely be convinced that their public servants constitute the country, or that stamping Major Uenerais, who contend that they are, speak the sentiments of that portion of the army that serve for $1 a month. iaprlngneld Kegister.

Platform or the German ICadicala In

tbe .tew England States Tbe Pioneer, the leading paner of the German radicals or tree thinkers, published in Roxbnry aiasaacnuseus, gives some particulars about the motives, platform and the cuds of the German organization, among which are the following: - 1 he principle of the Declaration of Independeuce in reference to the inborn and equal rights of all men to life, liberty and happiness. Is the principal foundation of "all republican life. Every mischief which has befallen this Republic, and all the dangers that still are prominent, have their origin solely in the deviation, as well of party politics as of the provisions of the Constitution, from the same principle. A logical or faithf ul carrying out of the principles of the Declaration of Independence requires, first and foremost: 1. Radical abolition of slavery, of all the laws in reference to and of all abuses that have origtnited from the same. 2. Complete legal equalisation of all citizens of the Republic, irrespective of desceot, color of skin, aod sex. 3. Complete liberty of expscssion of one'i mind and conviction upon every subject. 4. Abolition of all such institutions which tend to hinder the ruling of the free will of the majority of the people. 5. Opposition to any aristocracy and monopoly which may be founded upon the prerogative of external circumstances. 6. Protection from all danger which may threaten to injure the republican life from abroad; first of all. therefore, the strict sustaining (carrying out) of the Monroe doctrine. For the execution of this platform the following points are suggested by the Pioneer: Direct voting, as far as possible, at all elections, and abolition of tbe nuisance of conventions. Removing of the conflict of the so called State rights with the Federal law, to the end to make the people of tbe Union a complete unitand not a loose confederation of sections of people artificially separated. Reform of the Constitution, in a do me? tic sense, so as to make the Executive power a servant of the Legislature, at all limes dependent and responsible, and the Legi-lature to be nothing else but the always re ponsible and dependent substitute of the people. Reform of the military system, according to the system of Switzerland. Equal duty for all to serve as soldiers, snd abolition of the $300 clause. Abolition of the duty to enlist for the non naturalized. Reduction of the time now provided for naturalisation. Removal of the French from Mexico. Defensive alliance of all the American republics against monarchal invasion. More dignified true Repnblical representatives of this countrv abroad, and readiness to support the European revolution as a remedy against the interferance of European nations with American affairs. Abolition of the present position of the Catholic hierarchy, ou account of its being unconstitutional and dangerous to the welfare of the republic, the members of which are nothing but officers and ajrents of a foreign potentate and enemy of Republican development. Abolition of Sunday and temperance restrictions, they being against the Constitution. Protection and systematic guidance of the German emigration. Publication of ofS Jal notices and transactions in the Germin language as far as need be. Adequ ite p irticipition of the Germans in the distribution of public office. Just taxation according to the progressive system. Purification of the Administration from cor ruption, by excluding corrupt candidates, and punishment of the guilty. In reference to the present wan Securing of suitable success of the same bv means of a radi cal policy and energetic measures against the rebels and their assistants, Ac. The organization is to be formed out of local associations, which will send deligates to a State or Territorial convention, according to the existing geographical and political divisions. These State or Territorial conventions shall elect delegates for a Union Central Committee, whose duty it shall be to form and adopt a defini tive constitution. At present there is a selfconstituted central committee at Washington, composed of Germans holding Government of fices. From the Mobile Wrening Sew. Gen Lee and ttetalialion in I'cnn) I vnnla. It was said that 'no blade of crass ever crew where the horse of Attila had once set his foot." Let (he Confederate army imitate the leader of the Huns in this particular. So holdeth forth the Richmond Dispatch, and all the people say amen! Robert E Lee, laying aside the mantle he hth worn so fittingly; the mantle of him whose grand son he is worthy to be: "The Brrt, the U.t, tlie bert. Whom envy dare not hate;" of him to whom was "Bequeathed the name of Wachinrton, To make man blush there was but One." laving aside tbat unsullied mantle for the bar baric role of Attila, the "scourge of-mankind!" Robert E. Lee, whose name is a svnonvm for honor, truih, modesty, dignity, piety all, oil that constitutes moral as eil as military grandeur carrying arson, rape, murder, destruction and desolation among tin armed men and unpro tected women and children. The army of Northern Virginia with what pride we write the sentence the army of Northern Virginia ! How have thepe, our boys, to whom life had been but a bright play day, bared their breasts to the storms of wind, and hail, and snow, and sleet, snd frape and ball, becoming fuddenly, under the miphty responsibility resting upon them, veterans; an invincible host; a nation's safeguard. Now, when victors on evrry battle field; now, when ther spread an unenstained banner lefore high heaven: now. when all the earth is amazed at the reserve, strength and honor of the Southern character. js shown by these, our exponents; now, shall the army of Northern Virginia, our pride, onr boast, onr glory, with their young laurels fresh around them, the eyes of an admiring world upon them, ttecome a Uunnic band a band of marauders burning defenseless farm house, tearing down fences, robbing hen roosts? Stonewall Jackson conquered all foes, mortal and spiritual, ere he reached his full prime, became "the greatest General his country hath produced' (London Times,) the highest embodiment of the Christian virtue, the purest illustration of the Chriftian warrior. Now, when all the nations are rejoicing and honoring him as a noble and mighty man of valor, fallen, nay, rather risen to his fitting place amid the hosts of the Lord God omnipotent, now shall the corps, so long animated by his great soul, with his holy .iame for a battle-cry, his guardian spirit for a guide, that corps to whom the taking of defended cities ia but a child's ply, shall that corps smash mirrors, tear up libraries, cut family portrait. break open drawer, andsteal women's garments? Yet this is retaliation in kind who wiahea it who, tf.'io so fallen? The Generals of the northern army have become a "contempt, a hissing and a by-word" wherever civilization has loothold. Shall our Generals become like unto these we so detest and despise? Said Wood in New York: "We cannot compare Lincoln ai,d Butler and Burnside with Davis and Lee and Jackson," and thirty thensand of our enemies applauded. Would you make it possible to compare them? The question is not what do our foes deserve ttheydeserre annihilation), but what is worthy of us? Because a cur has bitten me, must I bite the cur? The nations had been taught to hat and despise us, that we were semi civilized cntthroats and assassins par excellence; but our very foes have been forctd to acknowledge that we have taught tbem lessons worthy of imitationlessons of magnanimity in the hour of Tictory. Now, when we have compelled this tributecompelled, if not the nominal, the real recognition and admiration of the world; when we have laid the charge of barbarous braggarts and fixed it upon .the foe now shall we yield all this moral dignity and grandenr, yield it for all time and all history, for the poor pleasure of devastating a few acres of Pennsylvania, of gutting a few Dutch stores? Is the "the'lion at the last gaRp;" must it "resort to t -,ity revenre because too powerless to work other injury?" No, a thousand times do; thanks be to God, we have no need to do aught contemptible. Let ua then cease this shout so unworthy of us. Let ns strive to visit a stern and majestic vencenoce. Let their country be dismembered, bankrupted; their once great name a by-word; let them be compelled to sit at the foot as they have at the head of nations; as gTeat as hath been their pride, so great let their degradation be! Th'.a would indeed avenge our mourners and our exiles avenge them, as is deserved of our foes, as is worthy of us. But let us never dream of accomplishing this great vengeance if we bsT succeeded, br our inane cry, in debasing, demoralizing, and disgracing our noble boys, our glorious army. Great God of Heaven! in this breathless hour make Thou Davis and Lee deaf to the thoughtless voice of a people exasperated by long suffering, keep them worthy to be a nation's saviors, worthy to be Tby honored sons!