Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1863 — Page 4

WE EELX" SENTINEL

- '-;vsepi: 2.8' Tno UMd to lieaioratloo. A cote m port ry remarks that if thii nation la ver restored to unity and glory (and we firmly believe it will be) , that restoration will be accomplished only by the united efforts of good, brave, conservative men in the management of our public affairs, men who will have the confidence of the whole country, who will ripe above the petty motives which control politicians, and who will repeat to the people the counsels of the Father of the country, in something of bit spirit. It will then be seen that reason has something of the same virtoe that force L now supposed to have, and that a rebellion is much more easily, cheaplj and permanent!? suppressed by measures . which unite force with reason and conciliation for the ignorant, the weak, the misled, and perhape eren for the leaders themselves, than by tbe mere exhibition and aoe of the force of a great government. Stern Justice herself becomes more effective, more powerful, more sublime in aspect and even in terrors, when accompanied by tbe tender and graceful form of Mercy. Aaalber Cantcrlpllan Coming-. The conscription will not furnish under the e ill just answered over a few thousand men. and most of these will run away on the first opportn-. city after reaching tbe army. It is now reported from Washington that the President is preparing -aa order for another draft, and that his proclamation suspending tbe writ of habeas corpus has special reference to the manner in which tbe new conscription is to be enforced. Tbe one just through with has furefced money but not men, and tbe Administration in violation of the law refuses to appropriate that money to the hiring of men. By the ruling of the War Office, every mnn who has paid $300 exemption U liable under every draft ordered just as if he had never been drafted ! We presume this is in further illustration of the benefits which the poor man is to derive from the $300 clause I Thad. Stevens and other leading legislators who pirtieipated in the enactment of the conscription law say the paymeut ot $300 was designed to exempt a man the same as if be furnished a substitute. Whitiso, TJolt, Stastox & Co. rule the reverse. Under the new conscription the thousands who luve paid exemption would of course deny further liability and appeal to the courts for protection. Tbe suspension of the writ of habeas corpus cnts them off entirely from this privilege, or ruher this right. A significant fact in connection wtih this new dispensation is stated authoritatively by the New Yrk Eipresa Fort Lafayette is temporarily closed, tbe prisoners having been all sent to Fort Warren, Boston. Piles of brkk and mortar surround the former work, and masons and carpenters are bard at work enlarging its prison accommodations, &c. Perhaps in all these things we are getting a foretaste of Gen. Dixs threat wbeu he said in bis letter to Governor Ssymovk that the Federal force be was gathering in New York would ensble bitn "to carry out such decisive measures es hall Itate their imprest ipon th mind of the country for years to come." ftegro Soldier. The most persistent and magnificent lying of this whole war has been in connection with the conduct of the negro troops at Port Hudson. It was the first occasion in which the negro troops were engaged in the field, and the abolitionists seem to have had their romances all ready to circulate as soon as tbe fight was over. Even Gen. Banks lent his name to add to the public delu-. sion. We have already given the official figures of the killed and wounded on that occasion, which showed very extraord-nary fighting; but the following extract from a letter written by tbe Colonel of the 52d Massachusetts volunteers settle! the matter: The reports of the fighting of negro soldiers at Purl Hudson on tbe 27thofilay, which had gained currency throughout the country representing them as having charged over the enemy's parapets, leaped over their siege guns, bayoneted tie gunner, thrown away their own guns and seized the foe with their b nlf, tearing their flesh with their teeth, and finally retreating, ieaving 600 of their number, out of eight hundred, dead in the trenehea were gross exaggerations. And I re pdtit here, they were gross exaggerations, and every officer and private in the department who understands the ftcts at all knows that they were gross exaggerations. I furthermore said in the presence of gentlemen at Cairo, when speaking ot the comparative merits of white soldiers and black, that I was of the opinion that there was oo race of men existing which made better soldiers than the genuine Anglo Saxon; that tbe Anglo Sax'n. I was satisfied, made a better soldier thin tbe African. I still adhere to that opinion; but I do not wish to be understood by this as opposing the use of negro soldiers. Far from it. lam decidedly in favor, and have been since the commencement of" the war, of employing ne g"oes (and ad many of them as possible) to the best puss ble advantage to the ctine, as fast as they can be induce t to come within our lines. But whether they can be made of better service to us as soldiers or as laborers with guns in their hands instead of spades and "curry combs." is a question; but, at the same time, I recognize it as being a question for the Government to de termine. and not for me. That negro soldiers rendered roost signal service in the trenches be for; Port Hudson, no one acquainted with the ffli will deny; but that they there "fought like devils, performing wonders, either with tbe bayonet or with their "teeth," is what I have do reason to believe. - I am, sir, respectfully vours. ' II. S. FxriNLEAT. - - r Col. Com'g ild Mass. V. M. ' - . . The 30O Exemption to be Ceed tn , , Ptarehaslajr Negroes. Mr. Senator Wilsos, the father of the conscrip tion bill, in his letter to Fxa.fAXDO Wood, explaining tbo radical pet measure, lays great stress upon the section which provides that the $300 exemption is to be u?ed "for the procuration of a substitute" by the Corernment. Well, millions of dollars have been paid over for exemptions, and tbe first step has yet to be taken toward the Be of that money for the purpose imperatively pointed oat in the law. - Sol only this, but we are now told thit a second conscription U to be made to supply the deficiences of the first, and to compel the payment of another $300 by such as may be drawn again and desire further exemption! What then becomes of this exemption money which, taking tbe Springfield (Mass.) district aa a basis on the number of districts represented in Congress, will amount to over thirty millions of dollars? - Perhaps the Baltimore Clipper of Wednesday may throw romm t'at upon it. ' We gave yesterday some facts relative to tbe running off and collating of slaves in the border States, which are not included in the emancipation proclamation. These slaves, it seems, are to be paid for emancipated, t $300 euch, the very money puid by exempts! . Saya the Clipper: Wo learn from oodoubted authority that the War Department baa determined upon a course of action in regard to the enlistment of negroes which will do away with much of tbe feeling that has been manifested n the minds of the loyal men of our State, whose slaves have applied for admission and been received into tbe regiment of Col. Bimey. The sum of $300 is to be allowed to the loyal master of every such slave who may enter the service. A board of examination is to bo instituted at Washington to de termine such eases. SuorLirrtao. A new method of shoplifting has jut beee discovered in Pans. An elegant lady enters a store, accompanied by a nurse carrying a bby dressed in rich embroidery. " On leafing, they are supposed to have taken laces, jew. elry, tc , as the case may be, and are arretted. An examination proves that the baby has a wax face, and a hollow pasteboard body which serve aa a biding- place for the stolen articles.

Anaurfers of -the Comptroller of the Currency to Quefttlen in Itelation to tue national Currency Act.' ,

,r TREASURY LI?A.RTMEKT, UEKT, ) rutxrr, V H. JB63. 1 Ornec or Cowraoixsa or vara Cci-t - - , . , . wasaonrror, July Mast of the questions presented to the" Comp troller, in regard to the national eumsfc-v act, have been answered in the forms arnf instiuctione which have been sent from thij office, and by letters to the interrogators. " There are a few, however, that can bo more conveniently and satisfactorily answered in this form than in any other. . let Question. Is there any "reasonable doubt" of the constitutionality of this act? r An titer. The constitutionality of the act Of Congress establishing, in time of peace, a United States Bank, with power to locate in the States, branches thereof, haring been affirmatively decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, the constitutionality of the national currency act is not considered to be an open question. In ordinary times the constitutionality of this act would bardly be questioned; but in the exist ing emergency of the Government, engaged, as it is, in a war of ffignntic proportions with specie no longer a circulating medium with a large internal revenue to be collected in the States and Territories, such a currency as is provided for in this act is an ab-olute necessity. To deny to the Government, through such agencies as Congress might create, the power to provide a currency based upon its own resource, would Ke not only to deny its sovereignty, but its authority to per form properly and safely its acknowledged functions. 2d Question. What are stockholders of State banks to gain -by discontinuing their present organizations, and organizing under the national law? finstrer. The chief gain will be in a circulation of notes, which can not long be secured through the agency of State institutions. - Legal tender notes have created a taste and prepared the way for a national bank note circulation. These note;", in all sections of the country, have a better credit and are in greater demand than the notes of the strongest banks. Country bankers, notwithstanding the largeness of the issue, find it difficult to supply the call for them, and are frequent y under the necessity of ordering them, at considerable expense, from commercial points, to meet the demand that will not be satisfied with anything else. The preference for these notes is not chiefly to be attributed to the fact that they are a "legal tender," but to the fact that they are Government money, and roust be good if the Government is good. I do not say that their eeneral credit is not, in a measure, owing to the fact that tney are declared to be "lawful money," or that it was not necessary to make them so, to place them beyond the influence that might, at the time, have been combined to depreciate them; but I do say, that the people, who control the currency, as they do tbe legislation of the coun try, prefer legal tenders to bank notes, because they are Government issues, are receivable for Givernment due, and must, every dollar of them, be redeemed, if the Government s maintained. The national bank note circulation is intended cradually to take the place of the direct issues of tbe Government. It i not expected that they will, at once, have the credit that has been attained by the ."legal tenders," nor that the notes of the National Associations, scattered from Maine to California, will be of uniform value throughout the Union; but it is expected hat these notes, sustained by the credit and secured by the resources of the nation, receivable for all public dues, except duties upon imports, and in payment of all claims against the Government, and, in case of the failure of the banks, to be reieemed at the Treasury of tbe United State, will challenge to a greater degree, the public confidence, and possess more uniformity of value than can be attained by the issues of the bet managed State institutions. I will go further than this: through the instrumentality of clearing houses, or redeeming agencies, which, in due time, may become a necessary feature of the system, the notes of the national banks, wherever situated, will be as nearly of uniform value throughout the Union as the commercial interests of the country will require. There will not be, in my judgment, for any considerable time, two systems of corporate banking (one State and the other national) in the United States; not that there is a necessary antagonism between the two systems, but because both will not be equally acceptable to the people and equally profitable to the banker. One or the other will fully occupy the field; and, aside from the manner in which the national system is being regarded by the people, and the rapidity with which National Associations are being formed.! requires no spirit of prophecy to predict which of the txco is destined to give way. The losses which the people have sustained by bank failures; the inadequate protection which State legislation, with rare exceptions, has given to the bill holders; the fact that the good credit of the issues of the strongest and best conducted State brinks. outside of the States, or the section where they exist, is not the result of public confidence in their solvencv, but of the influence of bankers and money dealers, who can as easily depres that credit as they can sustain it, and who do not unfrequentlv depressor sustain it. as suits their own interests or convenience alone; that all the credit that State binkshavest a distance from home, is artificial and unreliable; all these things have given rise to a widespread dissatisfaction ith the existing bank note Hrculation. and ere- . a'ed a popular desire for a circulation, of whose solvency there can be no question, and whose credit will not be at the mercy of bank note brokers . The Government of the United States is not to be overthrown by the attempted secession of tbe Southern Stites, and the war in which it is engaged. On the contrary, it will be vastly strengthened ay the severe ordeal to which it is being subjected strengthened by the evidence, which is every day being exhibited, of its inherent power, ana the conviction that is constantly spreading and deepening in the minds of the people, that tjeir personal destinies are identified with it strengthened by tbe verv debt it is contrading, and the evidences of value that are to be based upon this debt. Banks whose issues are secured by the Gov ernment, and which are to become, to some extent, the financial agents of the Government, will, in my opinion, ere long, be the only ones that will be tolerated bv the people; and if the banks of tbe older and richer States continue, as they have done and are now to a large extent doing, to furnish the newer and less wealthy States with a bank note circulation, they will have to do it through the agency of national banks. In availing themselves of the privileges of the national currency act, for loaning their capital and credit to the people of the new States, they will have the satisfaction of knowing that while adding to their own wealth, they are strengthening the Government, and creating a powerful influence against repudiation, by aiding in furnishing to the people a circulation, secured by the stocks, and representing the unity of the nation. Aside from the matter of circulation the natiouil currency act is as fovorable to bankers as the banking laws of most of the States. Should it prove to be too stringent, it is safe to expect that such amendments will be made to jt as will accommodate it to the reasonable requirements of capitalists, and the wants of a great and growing nation. Quettion. Will State banks be furnished with the national circulation, according to the provisions of the 63d section of the act? Answer. This section is a part of the law, and must be obeyed. I have hoped, however, that very few banks would claim the advantages of it. The engrafting upon a national system of banking of a provision thitto some extent dr nation alixes it, was. in my opinion, a great mistake. Nor can I understand how State banks, without the aid of State legislation, can avail themselves of tbe provisions of this section without violating their charters, or ihe laws under which they are incorporated. But if enabling acts, authorizing Stale b inks to circulate the national currencv, have been or should be passed by the Legislatures of the proper States, I should still regret being compelled to furnish this currency to institutions over which the Government can exTcie no supervision or control. I trust that few banks will deposit bonds and claim circulation, inder the 62d section, but that the stockholder of solvent banks, who desire to connect themselves with the system, will do so by availing themselves of the privileges of the 61st section, or, what would be better still, by winding up their present State institutions, and organizing new Associations, independent of the old ones. The intention of the law, was, to provide a national circulation through the agency of national banks, which should be subject to Government nipervision snd control. Nothing would bo more sura to destroy the symmetry of the system, or be more likely to bring it into disrepute, than a distribution a mono; the banking institutions of the States, ("good, bad, and indifferent,") of the national currency. I must, however, obey the law, and unless prevented from doing so, by a judicial decision or an authoritative opinion,! shall furnish circulation under the section referred to as soon as it cao be provided. As notes will be first supplied to Associations organized ander the

act. it is not likely that State bank's can be npp'ied, to any considerable extent, beiore the early part of the next year.. , . " r ' , Question Is i expected that State banks that may become National Associations under the 61st taction of tbe act will give up their present cor- ' porate names? innrer. Before I entered upon the discbarge of my duties as Comptroller of the Currency, the Secret irr of tbe Treasury, after much consideration, had come to tbe conclusion, as a national currency was to be provided through the instrumentality of National Banking Associations, that all such associations should have a common name. Persona forming associations under the act have, tbere'ore, been required to take the names of First, Second, Third, &c. National Banks of the places in which they are established, according to the order of organization. This rule is expected to be observed by State banks that may be converted into national banks under the 61st section of tbe act, as well as by original associations. If, jn their new organisations, they desire to retain, in some way, their former corporate names, it must be done in such manner as will not interfere with tbe symmetry of tbe circulation which is to be furnished to them, por render illegal their acta as National Associations. All , who connect themselves with this system have a commbn interest iu making it symmetrical and harmonious, as well as national. Tbe retention by State banks of their present corporate names, some of them long, and differing from others only in locality, would prevent this, and interfere with the uniformity which it is desirable to maintain in the national circulation. I know with what tenacity and pride the man- . agers of old and well conducted banks cliug to the names which their ability and integrity h ive done so much to make honorable; but I would suggest to them that it will be an 'easy matter for them to trans I er to national institutions the credit which they and their predecessors have given to State institutions; tha it is not the name of a bank, but the character of the men who conduct its affairs, and the character of its securities, that give to it the confidence of the public. - The Merchants' Bank of Boston will not lose a particle of credit by becoming the First National Bank of Breton; on the contrary, its credit will be improved by it. Nor would the stock of the Chemical Bank of New York be a whit the less valuable, nor would its reputation be in the slightest degree lessened, by its becoming the tenth or the fiftieth National Bank ot New York. H. McCclloch, Comptroller. From the London Times. "fir, Seward's Circular. Practically, then, the very gist and essence of Seward's argument is fatal to its object. If all is true that he t'.'lls us, that all is infinitely short of what we were prepared to take for granted twenty ears ago. without being any the more sanguine of Northern success. We thought the North would overrun the South in a very brief campaign, but would then find its difficulties begin. Mr. Seward tells us that after two years of mortal strurg e, the North has not overrun a quarter of the South having the real difficulty still in prospect as before. We only conclude from this th it the Federals have not even that

superiority for which we gave them credit; and that the relative strength of the Confederates is by so much the greater. If Mr. Seward reallywishes to make converts of French and Englishstatesemn, he must adopt a very different tine of argument. He must show us either that the South is evincing a readiness to yield, or that the North has a policy which will adnvt of the restoration of the Union, without this submission. lie shows neither of these things. On the contrary, he tells us the Southern President has just proclaimed a levy en mase, while of his own Government he says nothing, except that it is preparing to prosecute the war as before But wh it is to be the end? Europe thinks that the reconstruction of the Union by foice of arms is an impossibility, and a very treat number of Americans are of the same opinion. Europe also pee distinctly that the South gives not the slight est sign of concession, while even the fortunes of the war are not upon the whole very unevenly balanced. Not therefore without reason do we peisist in our original opinions on the subject; but though Mr. Seward has thus lost his pains, we can console him with the assurance that, so ' far as we are concerned, they were needlessly expended. If bis obj-ct was merely to deter us from intervention, it is safe in spite of the failure of this argument. In the"domes'ic controver ; sies" which have cost upwards of 500,001) lives and at leat fifty millions of money in two years, we have not the least design of interfering. The "adjustment" of these little matters we are ready to leave to Americans themselves as "exclusive ly" as Mr. Seward can desire; and if we add another remark upon a point so certain, it is merely to suggest that the people who thus buy themselves even superfluously in deprecating our intervention might be a little less forward in threatening us with extremities which would drive us to intervene. From the Milwaukee News. "Tbe .Tlilk tn the Cocoanut. . The number of influences which the officers of of a government with an immense army under its control, can bring to bear upon the virtue of men, is multitudinous. The present- abolition programme is to subjugate the southern half of the Union, blot out all the State governments, confiscate the property and distribute the spoils among the followers of the party in power. The scheme is ns splendid and illusory as it is fata and corrupt. Yet there are thousands affected by merceuary motives, who are daily asstutieg to this plan of revolution and plunder and are ready to take part in the attempt to carry it out. We have men of this class in our own midst a fact which sufficiently accounts for the new and extraordinary view of "loyalty" which hat a suddenly enlightened the minds of some of our citizens whose patriotism is not equal to their intelligence. To speak more plainly: We are creditably informed that a commission has been appointed by the War Department to confiscate and distribute . Southern plantations and other Southern real estate anions: the leading "lojal" men of the North, and that quite a respectable number of the residents of this State bave had cotton plantations assigned them upon leases for a nom inal consideration. We state a fact generally which will not be denied in Milwaukee, and which will throw some light upon the political movements of the enemies of the Democracy. , What an Abolition administration has already Done. The first abolition administration has supplied us with many things of which we were never be fore posaes-ed. It bas given us thousands of widows and orphans; filled our streets with maimed and, broken human beings; erected for our accommodation numberless military prisons; furninhed us lavishly with military authority, spies and informers, after the manner of Austria; has blessed us with an army of tax gatherers and hungry officials, who consume the substance of the people; bas initiated us into the experience of a stamp act, and entailed upon us a national debt to which that of England will soon be a mere circumstance; has given the national capital ail the airs and glitter of a court; has demonstrated that America can excel the world in thievery and corruption, as she does in fast yachts aud reaping machines; and has finally enabled os to realize the beaaties of a military conscription. These are a few only of the favors for which we are indebted to this abolition administration, and for which we hope all are truly thankful. As an offset to these desirable gift it has relieved us of habeas corpus, the right of trial by jury, and other mediaeval superfluities, for which we should all be still more gratelul. Chicago Times. a The Carthage and fifth street MeetIny ot the Democracy The Carthage and Fifih street meetings yesterday, despite the inclemency of the weather, which whs more like winter than autumn, were a hippy and magnificent success. The crowds wer: large, the spirit of the people high, and the temper ano voice ot the spe-ilters excellent. The country people irenerally repaired to Carthage, and the city democracy to Fifth street in the evening. It was really one meeting divided into two parts. It is a day that witl long be remarked with pleasure by the gallant Democracy of Old Hamilton, and is a most auspicious opening of tbe campaign. Cin. nq. We are informed by persons present upon the occasion that the meetings at Carthage and Cincinnati on Saturday last, in numbers and enthosi asm, have not been equaled in any previous political campaign, Tbe speech of Mr. Vooabees at Carthage was most eloquent and powerful. Tis remarks of lion. Jako U Baowjr, of this State, at both meetings, are spoken of as being full of happy hits and forcible points. An Abolition War. . Stosk, tha Republican candidate for Governor of Iowa, in a recen speech in Keokuk, said: "This is an abolition -wir, and it will be continued as an abolition war so long as there is one slave at the South to be made free." '

Havoc of War. - N Man is the moat wildly and wantonly destructive of animals, when the restraints are takeo off of bis passions, and be feela safe ia their indulgence. This is proved bj tbe havoc committed by mobs, and also by a soldiery freed from tbe control of discipline. The instances of these wild ravages since the war began are countless. Some ot them are described in the following letter published in tbe Newburyport Herald, &nd which states it to bave been written by an intelligent young man wbo was with Shebxan's column in its pursuit of Johsstox, after the fall of Vicksburg: Many people of wealth, of secesh proclivities, left their houses and slaves behind, and followed Johnston in his retreat. These houses were visited by the Federal soldiers, who, after taking all they wanted, destroyed tbe rest, and some times set fire to the buildings themselves and burned them to the ground. I will describe two instances. The third day of our march, we halted about three o'clock in the afternoon, in the edge of a wood, some fifteen miles from the Big Black. Here we enjoyed the cooling shade, made coffee, smoked our pipes and rested until near nightfall. . About half a mile from this place lived a Dr. somebody, who had an extensive plantation and owned a large number of slaves. His house was a large and costly one, in the style of our best New England farm houses, and seemed to be but recently built. It was tastefully and even splendidly furnished, and tbe carpets, the furniture, the pianos, the solenoid mirrors, the costly wares, and the large collection of books in various languages, bespoke a degree of wealth ami refinement seldom surpassed even in our own New England. The out-houses contained an abundance of bacon, pork, molasses, flour and sugar, and these stores were soon discovered aud appropriated by the soldiers, who also took or destroyed everything of value in the house You would frequently meet a rusty looking- old fellow belonging to some regiment of the 9th corps, with a canteen full of molasses slung around his neck, a leg of ham in one hand, a bag of flour on one shoulder, and three or four large books in the other hand or under his arm. Again, you would meet a countryman with a large flower vase in one hand, or perhaps an oil painting, and in the other a bag of beans, a pot of molasses, or two or three volumes of McCauIey or Bincroft. I went over a greater D irt of the house, and such a scene of wanton destruction I never before witnessed. In one room there was a seven octave pianc. made by Chi-tering, of Boston a most splendid instrument, lit ten minutes the top had been totn off, the legs all split to pieces; and I saw a fellow walking across the keys, crushing them all to pieces with his heavy boots There were also two mirrors in this room, extending from fliwr to ceiling, the cost of which must have been very large. A soldier entered the room just alter myself, and, going up to one of tbe mirrors, sur veyed bis sunburnt features in it a moment; then, with a thundering kick from one of Uncle S im's brogans, he shattered this splendid piece of f urtii ture into a thousand pieces, and sent its broken fragment to the furthest end of the apartment; the other was served in the same way. The curtains were torn down; the paintings which had ndorned the walls were destroyed or carried away; tbe contents ,f the book case and cupboards were strewn upon tbe floor. A soldier would go up to a chest of drawers, empty its whole content upon the floor, select two or three little articles he could carry in his pocket, and strew tbe rest over the room So it was throughout the whole house. Io fifteen minutes destruction had done its work ; and, to complete and give a finishing touch to the pcene, some vandal had applied the torch, and in less time than it takes me to describe it, the house and all the out-buildings were in flames, anil were soon reduced to ashes. When we left, nothing was to be seen but a heap of smoulderin? ruins. At La Veja, seven miles from Jackson, a house of about the same character, which had been abandoned by its inmates, was entered and despoiled of its contents in like manner. Several barrels of costly wares, which had been buried in the garden, were discovered, dug up and destroyed. The owner of this house was also a doctor, and I saw, by his letters aud some of the books about the house, that he had a son at Cambridge College in 185S.

For or Against the Old Union!-Under Which King! The people of this country are soon to take sides, either for or against "the Union as it was, and the Constitution as it is." There can be no other issue. The radicals are determined that there shall be no end to the war until the South will give up the institution of slavery. Conservative men aie willing to see each State return to its duty and its privileges under the Constitution as It is. As an evidence of what we say, we copy the following from the Boston Commonwealth the organ of Senator Scmmsr the closing part of an article commendatory of Mr. Solicitor Whitiso's letter, in which he says the South must be considered as conquered provinces, to be held iu subjection, until they will voluntarily abolish slavery. The editor says: The Constitution as interpreted by our lawyers, is as reat a puzzle as the old problem of motion was to the Greek sophists. Mr. Whiting will have with posterity the great credit of having discovered that Salcatar ambulando, or "jumnuo and try" method, which is swiftly transforming the compromises of the Constitution into statutes of freedom. By his e?say on the "war power," he took away the breath of nurrberless "judges. jurymen and pleaders," while he only laid down a chart or the course we were actually sailing. Iu this letter he has attempted some sailing direc lions, ol which, however, the substance is, "Don't lake a pirate for a pilot." The good sense which God has vouchsafed to all other men, and to some lawyers, will sooner or later make the country see the force of this advice; but for the present there is great recalcitration, even among the Republicans. Let us then briefly sum up Mr. Whiting's arguments. These are his assumptions and inferences, expressed or implied: I. The war has a cause an Me. 11 This Idea can not be Uin in battle. - - III. Consequently it roust be overthrown by a Policy, r IV. This Idea is protection to slavery, and its great bulwark is State rights. - V. Until the Idea ia overthrown, the bulwark cannot be surrendered by the enemy. We wish to "repossess ourselveaof the forts." VI. Reconstruction, as commonly understood, is to give bark the forts to the enemy, and arm their garrisons. VII. When the rebellion became a territorial war. sm h reconstruction became an absurdity. VIII. It is a fallacy to suppose that conquered traitors are citizens. Consequently they have no claim to the rights of citizens. IX. Our true policy is the destruction of slavery, as a means of self defense against (u ture wars. r X. To destroy slavery, the loyal States must hold .the disloyal States under control, till the people are willing to couseut to iu destruction. (!) XI The Government is pledged to this by the proclamation ol emancipation. XII. Ihe Co'usiitutioo not only permits but require it. Now if there are any who doubt that slavery is the cause of the war, or who admit that, and yet do not desire iu destruction, they will stick at propo-itions IV and IX. If there are any who think there is a better way to destroy slavery than by national legislation, they will question propositions X and XII. But the "logic of events" is fast converting all pitriots to the views so ably illustrated bv Mr. Wbiting. It is the duty of the press to see that the country is not betrayed in the meantime by cunning politicians, who cry out for the"Unionas it was, and the Constitution aa it is," but who mean only to defend slavery and perpetuate their own power." Thin tells the whole story. At the coming Presidential election men will vote for or against "the Union as it was.",It will be the entire conservative element of the country against those wbo would sacrifice it for the "idea" of anti-slavery. . . - . How Foreigners View the Ssuspen lien. . - The New York Courrier des Etats Unis.French organ in the United States, says of Mr. Lincoln's last ct: - The wo, Id will nsk, and particularly Europe, what has made neceasajy such an extraordinary proclamation, when the Federal cause seems to have no more obstacles before it? The circular of Mr. Seward, claiming great victories, iiC , is followed by a contradiction in the suspension of the habeas corpus (suspended for "the public safety,") which seems utterly to refute, what tbo Secretary of State aayi. . ,

Tbe Last Proclamation Despotism tn Theory and Practice. . Despotism never stops of "Iu own accord, and always travels the same road. 'The path is well beaten, and whatever may be the excuse for the -several steps in its progress, tbe end is always the same. The time bas come, in the United States, for the sons of patriotic sires, who gained lasting fame by fighting for civil liberty in the revolution, to cease to be astonished at anything. We thought we knew something of the natire rights of a people and the just powers of a government. Each day tells us that we were mistaken. There are no natire rights; no just powers. Right are simply the amount of free agency which the Ad , ministration permits the people to enjoy; and institutions are the sum of the proclamations of. the President. Rights have ceased to be native; powers no longer exist because they rejust, and the supreme law of the land is the will of the Executive. In the case of a practical despotism it becomes difficult to judge whether the measures are the result of folly or of sagacity. Their audacity disturbs the mind in its efforts to estimate them, and so many sUndads present themselves that we become confused and distracted. Is the despot a fool or a fiend? Is he totally blind, or is he guided by a malign wisdom deeper than we can measure! Is be pursuing a fixed plau ot aggression or is he merely striking at random, determined onlv to destroy? Are his invasions of right things which seem to him necessary or justifiable in consideration of the ends he hopes to attain; or are they simply the result of an utter and wanton recklessness of consciousness ? These questions arise within us in contempla-" tion of Mr Lincoln's last published proclamation, by which the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus is suspended. Mr Lincoln puts the act upon the ground that, in his opinion, it Is required by tbe public safety. Whether the public safety does actually require it, is a point uoon which, so far as we are aware, there is no information beyond the statement of the President to that effect. We are not shown that it has been publicly called , for, or that any exigincy has ari.-en seeming to render it necessary for the sake of the people or the Government; nor is any such exigincy apparent in the asnet ta of society at borne, or in the prosecution orwe war abroad. In order to fib no injustice to the President, we would get as nearly as possible at the result at which he appears to aim by the proclamation It provides to suspend the privilese of the writ of habeas corpus throughout the United States, "in cases whereby the authority of the President of ' the United States, military, naval and civil officers of the United State, or any of them, hold persons under their command, or in their custo d v, either as prisoners of war, spies, or aiders and abettors of the enemy; or, officers, soldiers or seamen enrolled, drafted, mustered or enlisted in, or belonging to Ihe land or naval forces of the United States, or deserters therefrom or other wise amenable to mitit ry law, or to the rules aud regulations prescribed for the military or n aval services, by the authority of the President of the United States; or. for resisting a draft, or for any other offense against the military or naval service" The effect of this, stated in si mole terms, is to put every person in the United States under the power of any officer of the General Government, civil or military. From the President to the Four'h Corporal in the military, and the Deputy Marshal in the civil province, each is supreme in the legislative, judicial and executive departments. State poveieignty. State government, State constitutions and lawsare obliterated; for the loest United Stites officer may put the highest State dignitary to durante; m ty arrest, imprison, torture and kill, and yet no St "te power may interpose to inquire into that officer's authority. This proclamation bring us, the people of the United States, uii'ierthat which is, in theory, the simplest Government known to man a despot ism; the irresponsible sway of one man, with no rule of popular conduct but his will. Why we have come to a despotism in theory, except it be to come also to a despotism in practice; to bring men to the dead level of things without right, it is not easy to conjecture We have been wont, during all the (ist of our history, when spe iking of our own Government, to attach a good deal of importance to its theory. We relied upon its theory for protection. We are gaining some insight into the value of theories of liberty to protect aiid preserve, when the spirit of liberty has taken its departure M iy generations yet unborn reap the benefit of our experience! We come hick to the deel ration upon which the President btses the provisions ol his proclamat:on; that this utter extinguishment of ths peop'e, this radical subversion of the constitution, this complete revolution in the G ivernment, is required by the "public safety " We come back to dispute its truth. It is not true. The proclamation is predicated upon a falsehood. The public safety of the United States never required ' that the nennte should be stripped of the r civil rights. When the public safety of the United States should require such a measure, it will be high time for the United States to cease to exist. The people can not afford, at that price, to purchase the pleasures and benefits of a nationality. We should fail in a material point if we shou'd neglect to characterize this act, in respect to iu particular meaning and intent. It is a party measure; its object is to secure a purely party party end. It seems that the party of the Presi dent is in peril from the will of the people, and that it is the determination of its head to employ his power to avert the impending danger. In the place of the "public safety," let it be read the safety of the Lincoln dynasty, and the thing is at once true and comprehensible. The people are making an issue with the President upon a reso lution of "want of confidence." and the President has accepted the issue and determined to extii.guish the people. Cincinnati Enquirer.

Governor Johnson on Reconstruction. At a large Union meeting at Franklin, Ten-' nessee. August 23, Governor Andrew Johnsok made an eL-qtient speech, from the report of which we like the following: The idea has been cunningly circulate! that after the rebellion has been suppressed the North' will not let us bck into the Uoion. nor let us have a State Government! What shallow hum buggery and deception! Some think we must petition th Govern ment to get hack into the Union. I deny the doctrine of secession wholly, absolutely. Into a to. Tennessee is not out of the Union, nvver ha- been, and never will be out The bonds of the C institution aud the Federal power wiW always prevent that. The Government is perpetual; provision is made for reforming the G ivernment and amending the Constitution, and ndniitiiiig S'ates into ihe Union; not for letting i hem out of it It is a Government of many States, and there must be harmony between all pirtsof the machinery; there must not be clashing between the different wheels i.f our political system. Where are we now? There is a rebellion; that was anticipated as I said. The rebel urtny is driven back. Here lies your Slate; a sick mm in his bed, emaciated and exhausted, paralyzed in all his power and tin ible to walk alone. The physician comes. Don't quarrel about antecedents, but administer to his wants and cure him as quickly as possible. The United States sends an agent, or a Military Governor, whichever you please, to call him to aid you in restoring your Government. Whenever you desire, in good faith, to restore civil authority you can do so. Manifest a desire to do so aud a proclamation for an election will be issued na speedily as it is practicable to hold one. One by one all the agencies of vour State Government will be set in motion. A Legislature will be elected. Judges will be appointed temporarily until you can elect them art tbe polls; and so of Sheriffs, county oourt Judges, Justices and other officers until the way is fairly open for the people, ar.d all the parts of civil government resume their ordinary functions. This is no nice, intricate metaphysical question. It is a plain, common sense matter, and there ia nothing in the way but obstinacy. Socth west-cm Ism as a CoNrcacKCK The following appointments were made for tbis dis trict by the South-western Conference recently convened at Washington, Daviess county. We also give the names of the Presiding Elders of the other districts: Indianapolis District James Hill, P. E ; Indianapolis. Wesley Cbapel. S T. Gillett; West Indianapolis and Mooresville, J. Kiger; Bellvilie, S Bowers; Monrovia, Wm Meginnis; Moorsville Circuit, J. H. Clippenger; Waverlv. T. A. Whitted; Mirtinsville, S U. Sutton; Morgantown. J. W. Jones; Williamsburg, S. W. MeNaghton; Jonesville, W. W. Rundet); Houston, J. F. Fish; Holtonsville, J. W. Asbury; Bloomington, B. F Kawlius; Stanford, L. D. Jay; Bloomington Circuit, to be supplied; H B Hib ben and M. Woods, Chaplains in the Army; C. Nutt, President of the Indiana State University. . ) Greencatle District J. H Noble, P E. Evansville District W. M Hester. P E. Rockport District J. J. Stallard, P. E New Albany District D Mclntire, P. E. Mitchell District I. N. Thompson, P. E. E3y"The Detroit Free Proess of last Friday says: ; -"The friends of General Case will be pleased to learn that his health Is improving, and that ha is now considered oat of danger."

ALL. SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

Gen. Grant has issued an order prohibiting the presence of negroes in the camps of white troops, and instructing Provot Marshals aa to their disposition. An abolition paper says that Mr. Lincoln inherited from James Buchanan "aa exhausted and bankrupt treasury." We should like to know what the successor of Abe Lincoln will inherit ? A FoRGti. A music teacher in Springfield, who is also a member of the church and Superin tendeut of a Sabbath school, has recently been arrested for forgery ' His piety was beautiful, and so was his penmanship. A letter from Provost Marshal General Fry states that the excess of Illinois over orevious requirements is 44,851 men. which gives a surplus over her pre-etit quota of 8,151. There will, consequently, be no draft in the State under the present call. Jewish Stsagogce. The new Jewish synagogue which has been built at Berlin, surpasses in size and in magnificence, the largest buildings of the kind in Europe those at PcSih, Vienna and Cologne. Tbe edifice his in the interior five large and fire small cupolas, lighted from above. The following is an accurate statement, in round numbers, of the business at the Pension Office: Invalid applications to date, 3D ,000; widows' applications, 30,(KM- Dumber of certificates of disability received from Surgeon General's office. 2511,(11)0. They are still coming in at the rate of 300 a day. A Sstt Narcotic At a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Tasm mia, a quantity of "fitchery, a uacrotic punt brought from the interior of Australia, where it is used by the na tives tn produce intoxication, was produced by a gentleman, who remarked that on one occasion Mr. King, the explorer, swallowed a small pinch of the powder, the effects of which he described as being almost identical with the effects pro duced by a large quantity of spirits. A great novelty was on exhibition at the Vermont State Fair, in Rutland, last week It is in the Torrn of a steam pleasure carriage adapted to moving over common roads. This machine is of exquisite workmanship, and. when supplied with wood and water for a trip of 77 miles, weighs only 650 pounds. Some four weeks since, thi? carriage made the run over the public thoroughfare from Lowell to Koxbury, a distance of 27 miles, in 11 minutes. It is claimed that it will more on a common road, a mile in two min utes. The Statk Department. It is stated in political circles that some trouble exists in the Cabinet, growing out of a recent effort of the President to ignore the State Department in an official communication to Minister Adams. It seems that upon the last outward trip of the steamer Scotia, a Mr. Oakland was rent as a special beaper of dispatches from Mr. Lincoln to Mr Adams, which were never submitted to the Premier. It is also said that in mler more ef fectuilly to conceil from Mr. Seward the fact of this special mission, no demand was made upon the State Department for money to defray expenses, but it was obtained upon a temporary loan at Boston. Since the return of the Scotia, the fcta have leaked out. and excite much indignation in the State Deoartment. Blockade RrsxKBS at Bebmcda. A gentlemen who has recently arrived at Boston from the Bermuda Islands, says those ports are liter aliy jammed with blockade runners, which arrive and depart with almost the regularity of crusa der. The ware houses, wharves, and every available place are crowded with cotton, which islanded wherever there is a chance for disem barkation. Three Northern vessels wereengaged in the contraband trade, one of which this gentlemen sailed in up the Hudson river. All the blockade runners carry the Confederate flag, and when they depart from port the welkin rings with the shouts of the people assembled on shore. - Here is an exhortation from the writings of Junius that the American people will find specially adapted to the present political crisis in this country: "Let me exhortyou never to sutler an invasion of your political constitution; however minute the instance may appear to b., never pass it by without a determined, perseverinjr resistance. One precedent creates another. They soon ac cumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, to dav is doctrine. Examples are euid to justify the most dangerous measures, and when they do not suit exactly the detect is sup plied by analogy. Re assured that the law that protects us in our political as in our civil rights trows out of the constitution, and they fall or flourish with it." Bob Liucoln, "the government's" oldest son, and a stout, athletic youn; man, is spending his summer at the White Mountain. Why don't Robert try his hand with a musket? What bet ter is he than those ot others for whom Mr. Lincoln has made such calls, and wjiom he threatens to force into the service? It is hard to resist the conclusion that either th President is a very great hypocrite and does not believe the war to be the holy thing he professes, or that he is too selfish to make the sacrifice he demands of other parents. His son is not a whit better than thousands of others who have given their lives in this struggle to emancipate the negro. National Currency Act. We publish this morning Mr. Comptroller McCi lloch's explanations and comments ia regard to the National cunenry act. Tbis remarkable production is worthy of perusal. It exhibits moKt eleirlr the determination of the present administration to hreak down all State b inking institution" and build up an overshadowing political money power In their stead. We Grmly believe that this grand paper currency bubble is bound to burst, causing wide spread ruin, but it is a part of the scheme inaugurated by the leaders of the Republican party to concentrate power in the Federal Goverement for the purpose of maintain ing political supremacy and therefore none the leas reprehensible. All ttieSitea titl in the Union. All the St-ite- th it were in the Union on the day of the bist Presidential election are still in the Unii'u. There existed no power then, none has arisen since, which has taken one of them out of the Union. Secession ordinances did not do ;t; for tkev were and are uncomtitutionul and roid The rebellion ha not done it; for thut has been from the beginning a usurpation of authority, in ocen defi ince of the constitution and laws of the United States, and could not ch inge the relations of a single Jtato to the national government. That government cannot change these relations, for these are fixed and determined by the national constitution, and cannot be changed except by a change in tint instrument in the way therein prescribed. The Sutes are then, to-day, all in the Union with their constitutional relation! .o the Union unchanged, as much as they were on the 6th of November. I860. And the national government is bound to secure (see U. S. const., art 4, sec 4)' to every Stute in this Union a re publican form of government, Such as each State then constitutionally bad and which it is still entitled to have. We should carefully guard against being misled or deceived by mere words. There can be no "reconstruction." "restoration, or "readmis sion" of any State in the sene that any such Sute is legally and constitutionally out of the Union. To admit this is to admit that there has been a power or force exerted somewhere, which has dissolved the Union. All that can be truthfully said is that the constitutional authority of the"ntionl government has been illegally and temporarily suspended in some of the Sutes. and all that tri war has been," or should proe)cuted for, or is for the resumption or lestoration of that authority thus suspended. That being dona in any State, where a portion of the people have been or are in rebellion, such State does not techically "resuma" her place in tha Union; she retains ' it, with her State constitution. State government and State laws conetitutiooallj enacied, In foil fore and vior, the s i me as though no rebellion had ever existed-' the United States having tbe same ripht and power to punish anr crime committed in violation of iu laws by any inhabitant of any State, as it has alwavs bad and exercised, execp when the course of justice has been temporarily obstructed and Impeded by a forte that coult not, for tbe time being, be overcome. The loyal people of the United States no matter by what party name any of them may be called will hold and maintain to the last and at all hatards. that no secession ordinance, no re bellioti, no executive proclamation, no legislative enactment, and no decree of any court, has taken or can constitutional or rightfully declare a single State out of the Union. The people who have suffered to an extent almost unparalleled in the history of nations from a war for the mainten anct of every State in the Union, will never consent to a dissolution of that Union by admit miuinethe going out or secession of auy one State. Ohio Statesman. ' . . j

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JVfOTlCE IS HEREBY GIVES TH KT I WILL SELL AT la public auction, on Saturday, the 3d day of October next, at tbe lenidence of John Day, late of Marion ' county, deceased, all bis personal property not taken by the widow, consisting of Hon, Cattle, Sheep, f or head of Fattening Hgs and a lot of Stock Hogs, Corn in tha field, a lot of Wheat in the bushel. Hay in the mow, od Bukkt and Harness, one two-horse wagon. Farming Utensils, one set of Blackmith tools, Household and Kitchen Furniture and other articles too numerous to mention. A credit of nine months will be given on all rums over three dollar, all under three dollars eah in hand, the purchaser giving his note, with approved security, waiving valuation and appraisement laws. ANDRKW F. tOKY, Administrator. fcept-dltw3w ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE., ;vroTiCK is hkrebt givewthat the csdfrS'GXEO bas been appointed A ministraior of the estate of John Day, late of Marion County, deceased. -Said estate is supposed to be solvent. AXDKJiW . COKY, AdminUtrator. septfi dltw3w. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. jVTOTICE Is HKREBT GIVES T4AT THK CSDER i. MGNKDlias been appointed Administrator of the e late of Jaines Hakrr, late of Marion county, deceased. Said estate I supposed to b solvent. septU-w3w JKS.-K i'UICE, Administrator, To Nervous Sufferers of Both Sexes. A REVEREND Gentleman having been restored to health tn a few days, after andergoirtg all the usual outine and irregular expensive mix1 of treatment without aeces,consider it hi sacred duty to communis catet his afflicted fellow creatures tin msass or erat, Henc,onth receipt of an addressed envelope, be wil sc Jd (free) a copy of the precriptifccr d. Direct to Dr JOHXÜ.DA.GNALL, 186 Fultonstreet.Brooilj, Jt.T Jau36-wlv j ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE, NOTICE OF S3L.E. JVOT1CK !S HEREBT GIVFJf THAT I W1IX SELL j. at public auction, on Friday the 9th day of October next, at tlx residence of James Baker, lae of Marion County, dece-jei1, near the Lutheran Church, in Decatur Township, in Mid County, all bis personal property (not taken by th widow,) ronMsting of ten stacks of Hay, tenty-6ve acres of Corn in the field, three Horws, two Cows, Hogs, a spring Wagon, a lot of Harness, Farming Tools, Household Goods, and various other articles too numerous to mention. A credit of six months will be given oa all sums over three dollars, the purcbaergiving his note with approved teenrity, waiving valuation an ! appraisement laws. tptU-w3w JESSE KKICE, Admmi.-trator. LICENSE. Notice of Application for License. T0T1CE IS HEREBT G1TEX THAT I WILL APPLT j to the Board of Commissioners of Marion county, Indiana, at their first term, commencing after tbe expira tion of twenty dar. from tbe publication of this notice, for a licence to sell "intoxicating Ilqnon In a less qou-i titv than a quart at a time," with th privilege of allowing the same to be drank on my premises, for one year Vy place of business and the premises whereon said liquors sre to be drank are located at kons No. 15 North Illinois street, in Indianapolis, in Centra town, ship, in Marion Comity, Indiana. G. VOO'G. eptl-w3w THE COSFKSSIO.HS AD F.Xl.ltlENCE OF A INVALID, Published for the benefit, and as a warning sndCAmoJ TO I0USG MEN who suffer from Hervous Debility. Premature Decay of Manhood, etc .surpljinr at the same time, THK MKAX9 UP SEL-PCUKE. By ose wbo ha cared himself, after being put togreat expense and aJury through medical bumbug and quackery. By enclosing a poet-paid addressed envelope, tlngls eopies mar be had of the author. NAT HA XATiFATR, so,., ny35-w Iy . Bed or J, Xlnx s county. XT. LEGAL. STATE OF INDIANA, VARIOW COUTT, SS la tbo Court of ConrawB I lea, of Marioa Coantv, la tha Stats of Indiana, October Term, A. D. 1S63. Mary Edmunds vs. Ks-er Eumunds. Be it known that on this 10th day of Sept.. In tbe year 188. the above named plaintiff, by his attorneys filed in the ofllca or the Clerk or th Court of Commoa Pleas of M srion county her complaint against said defendant la tha abova entitled cause, together with an affidavit of a com petent person, that said defendant, Eber Edmunds is not a resident of the Stat of Indiana. - Said defendant is, therefore, hereby notified of tbe filing and pendency of said complaint against him, and that unless be sppesr snd answer or demur thereto, at the calling of said cause on the second day of the next term of said Court, to be begun and held at the Court-house, in the city of Indianapolis, on tha first Monday in October neit, said complaint,and the scatters and thl"- .therein contained and alleged, will be heard and de jiined la his absence. WILLIAM WALLACf lerk. By W. B. Leno , Depnty. ; R. L. and T D. Waxfolk, Attorneys for Plaintiff. sept31-w3w

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