Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 February 1864 — Page 2

,YEEKLY SENTINEL.

MONDAY, - - - FEB. L'U. Utrmr nmrfn n Stte fltey Governor Moeto, in his speech to the Republican Convention at thU place on the 23d lest. imoDg eher things, mU: There u another transaction connected with the refusal to 'pay the interest on the public debt, which mast, if possible, Increase the abhorrence entertained for it in the public mind. On the dtj of August 'Messrs. Ristixe and Brett, the Auditor and Treasurer, advanceJ to Waiks, from the State Treasury, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be invested by him in our war loan bonds or the State Hock, of which I hare been speaking. Messrs. Risti.ne and Barrr have also taken from the treasury the sum of $50,000, with which they have purchased Indiana five per cent, stocks, makiug in all the Bum of $100,000 taken from the treasury for that purpose. ' Ristixe k Co. decide that it is unlawful to pay interest on our stocks, but that it is lawful to take money from the treasury to buy up stocks themselves, reduced in price by the failure to pay the interest. Surely the State might have been saved this last displace." . - Os? the 13th day of March, 1SG1, this same Governor Eigned and approved an act entitled "An Act to authorize the Governor to issue boDds; to appoint a Board of Loan Commissioners, D1 defining their duties; requiring the Sinking Fund Commissioners 10 purchase bonds; defining their duties in relation to the interest received oo the same, and levying a tax to meet the payment of ;he interest and principal of the bonds to be sold." In section 5 of said act we find the following: "For the purpose of paying the interest semi-annually, and the final payment of the principal at maturity, on the bonds in the first section mentioned,, an annual tax of five cenu on each one hundred dollars iu value of the taxable property of this State is hereby levied commencing' in the year 1FG1, and the excess of money collects J by siid tax each year, after paying the interest as it betimes due, shall be paid to the Sinking Fund Commissioners, wIkj shall purchase these bonds if they can procure them on reasonable terms, and if not, then to invent the same in other State stocks." An act approved June 4, 1561, directs that the purchases of the bonds and stocks shall be made by the State Debt Sinking Fund Commissioners. - .. . Was Governor Morton. when he made the statement above quoted, ignorant ' of the existence of the law that he had approved, or did be desire to impose on his hearers? The luv makes a special appropriation of the money derived from this tax; it can be , used for no other purpose The interest has been regularly id on the war loan bondsand the Commissioners of the State Debt Sinking Fund have been usinj the re.-iJue in the purchase of bond and stocks as required by law, and the Governor of the State denounce the act as abhorrent and disgraceful. H d the Auditor and Treasurer, instead of tiding the money as they have done, according to law, given it to him ta run an institution unauthorized by the law of this State or of the Unied State., the act would no doubt have been much more creditable in his estimation. -Ri.sti.ve & Co., did not decide that it was unlawful to pay interest on our State stocks. The " Supreme Court vf the State decided that no appropriation had been mide for that purpose. RibTixt; & Co. respected the decision of the Court, as all men having a proper respect for the laws and courts of the country should. When the people come to investigate these mattere they will find that whiie the Auditor and Treasurer of State hare kept strictly within- the limits of the law bi Excellency H The Dutr I. the Time. ... The prent duty 'of the, hour, displacing and putting aside all other eoo-idera lions, is the sup pression of the rebellion Until this is done all -political discussions, all efforts of reconstruction, so called, are rain. Such are the sentiments expressed by Governor MoBTos.at the so-called "Uuion Convention," on the 23d of February. If the great duty of the hour is the suppression of the rebellion, aside from all considerations of a partisan character, why h it that Governor Mosrox devotes so much of his speech to the Republican Convention to considerations of an exclusively partisau character If he regards it the duty of the times to eschew u!I partisau considerations, why is he so anxiius to discuss ques tiocs of purely partisan character? The bürdet uf bis address to the Republican Convention, involve issue of party difference. His effort in to justify the party policy of the State and Federal Administrations and denounce the political sentiments of those opposed to the poticy of the party in power It cannot be d?nied that the Administration entertain positive views upon the party issue now before the couutry. Iiis Excellency intimates that the Kepablican p-vty h is the right to impress iu peculiar vieas npou the country, but at the same time he expresses the opinion that all political discussions npou the part of his political opponents are vain. Why this distinction?' Have the Republicans any better right to entertain their peculiar views upon governmental policy than Democrats? Is cot free discussion the very life of republican institutions?' If the great duty of the hoar, displacing v nd putting aside every other consideration, is the suppression of the rebellion, why do not the Republicans set the example in that regard? If that is the highest consideration which should influence an American citizen in like present crisis of the country, can the party be excusable that takes advantage of the present national troubles, to ore iu peculiar war policy in tha administration of the government? Is there either honesty or patriotism in no doing? Until the party in power exhibit more liberality toward its political opponents it can make no claim to patriotism, to honesty even, iu the profession It ' makes of putting aside all considerations to suppress the rebellion and maintain or restore the government established by the founder of the republic. Abolition loyally. It ia gratifying to observe how liberally the tests of loyalty may be construed. In the case of a conservative like General McClellas lor example, the fact of having twice saved the Capital will not excuse his tying a word in favor of conducting the war on Christian principles; but one who can truly thank God that he labored for twenty years to destroy the Union, and who called upon God to "damn the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" because her officers had refused to perjure themselves, indulge in very considerable license of expression. A Boston eormpotdent of. the New York Ti roes, sends this extract from a recent speech of Wxxdeh. I'hiiaiw in that city: , Either the Jfoith must rise to the opinion of unanimously crushing the President int.. nub mission, or we most hive a d.fferent lender for the next four years. If Mr. Chase would give up bis bank system. th? nation would be eighteen Millions a year rkher in the immense interest which goes to those national taoks; which, in thirty or forty tears, woulJ pay the whole war Ubt, and yet this ratn is called a financier. We bive a right to demand that the doors of the war power shall not be closed until the whole hideoas career is destroyed. Perhaps with Chase for FreMlMit, Butler in the War Department, and Fremont at the head cf our armies, we miirbt close the war in two years; but, after all, public opinion is whatsis wanted. With the Tribune, Evening Post and Uerald decent at command, evei Judge Taney can b made to haw regard to justice. . And yet Mr. Psillits would be feted at the League.

meeting- of the l)macratlc stae CenIrul CommltteeIta Action. 1 - The Democratic State Central Committee met at the Sentinel office on Tuesday, the 23d inal. After a full interchange off entiment between the members of the Committee and other gentlemen from various sections or the State, the following resolutions were adopted: RtsoloeJ. That tbia committee recommend the holding of a delegate convention of the Demo cratic voters of Indiana, at Indianapolis, on TUESDAY, THE 12th DAY OF JULY, IfcW, and that county delegates be appointed on the basis of one delegate for every one hundred votes (and one for every fraction of City and over) cast for Secretary of State at the October election of 1662. Resolved, That the Democratic and conservative citizens of the several counties of Indiana be recommended to assemble in their proper places at an early day t appoint delegates to the State Convention, in accordance with the basis fixed in

the preceding resolution. Kesolred. That it be lurther recommenoeu, that an open and thoroagh orgatjiz ition of all who are in favor of maintaining Je Union of the States and the government of our fathers, and all opposed to the corrupt, destructive, and revolutionary abolition policy of the National and Stete Administrations, be perfected, at as early a day as practicable, by primary meetings, county aud district conventions, and that they put into the field candidates to be bv them nominated and supported for county and district offices, con gressional and judicial. ' ' The Committee then appointed the following delegates to represent the State at large in the National Democratic Convention to assemble at Chicago on the 4th of July next: ' ! Delegates. Hun. Joseph E. McDonald. Hon.' James 'M. IIaxxa, Hon. William L. Niblack and lion. A. P. EuotsTox. The following gentlemen were selected as contingent delegates, in tno order they are named: . Coxtixgexts. J cues BarncuER. Esq., Hon. Joux Pettit, Hod. James W. Gait and Samuel A. Hall, Esq. Geo. McOcat, Chairman.' The flight t Speak. "It is the ancient aud undoubted prerogative of this people to canvass public measures, and the merits of public men. It is a 'homebred' right, a Gielde privilege. It hath even been en joyed in every house, cottage and cabin in the nation. It is not to be drawn into controversy. It is as undoubted as the right of breathing the ... . . ... . . air or walking on tue earth, .belonging to the private life as a right, it belongs to public life as a dutv, and itis the last dutv which those whose representative 1 am shall find me to abaudon. Aiming at all times to be courteous and tem perate in Us use, except when the tight itself is questioned, I shall place myself on the extreme boundary of my right, aud bid defiance to any arm that would move roe from my ground. '. "The high constitutional privilege I shall de fend and exercise, within this house, aud in all places; in time of pe ice, and at all times. ing I shall assert it; and should I leave no other inheritance to mv childreu, by the blessing of God 1 will leave them the inheritance of free principles, and the example of a - manly, ind pendent and constitutional defense of them." Daniel Webster. xihe Nomination." Inder this ne.iu the virtuous an J nighiy exemplary Journal reads a moral lecture to the Republican party, which, if not instructive, may be regarded as somewhat sarcastic. We quote paragraph or two to illustrate the moral: "Wherefore we beg the Convention of the 221 to give as the very best men that the party contains; not to tie its choice down to the names suggested by the papers, or announced by "Many r nends and a two dollai bill, but to search any where, among any past partv associations, for those whose characters can command confidence, and whose nbilities can make their characters active agents for" good. There are indications that we shall hre a doubtful and even desperate contest, and we. can t afford to fight with smooth bores if we can find rifles. This is the text. Now comes the illustration, which we give in the Journal's own language: "Popularity in time past has not always been a credit.rble quality. It has been purchased too olleti by mean compliances and unworthy arts, by psmderinz to !ad passions, and endurinz bad practices. But Gov. Morton is an illustration of a kind of popularity that never flattered tmnitw. never encouraged mtcial vice, never sought favor by taise airs or false professions. 1 here ts but little need of comment upon the Journal's idea or illustration of creditable popu larly, if His hxcelltncv is a "specimen brick of official integrity and personal purity in the ltepuoltcan ranks, it must impress every good citizen that we have indeed fallen npon evil times If the nomination of men to public position who violate with impunity both moral and civil laws will te a positive addition to its strength which - a a m me tteountican party ctm.ol anoru to lose, .we can only say "God help the Republic" . Xlto Conerlption law. As a rratter of publie interest we publish to day the conscription law ns passed by both Houses of Cougress. This msy be dry reading to many, but as a draft will undoubtedly take place next month to fill the quota under the last call of the President, the law under which it is to be made cannot fail to have a practical ronsidera tion, especially with those alio may have the fortune to be drawn. Whatever mav be the character of the act, it is the la w of the laud and will be enforce.!. . - - The Proffreas of our Indebtednea. The census returns of I860 show that the value of all the real and personal property of til the inhabitants of all the Unite 1 States, slaves in cluded, as assessed for taxation, was $5,997,947,525. Hut as for the purpose of taxation the full amount is not always givrn.the tiue or full estimate t value is given at $7,124,556,200. Taking this larger amount as the value of all the property of every kind in the United States, we find the proportion of it. situated iu the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Alabama. Mississippi. Texas aud Louisiana, amounts to $2.044,941 .931. leaving lor the remaining States $5,(J?5,G14,2bJ. The -present Administration has already incurred in the prosecuiiou of the preseut war a pubiic debt somewhere beiween SJ.OOH.UÜO.OÜO and $3.000.1)00,000. The exact amount is not kuowu, out. it is prooiioiy nearer the latter um than the former. Thus we hve already incurred public debt equal to more than one-third of all the property iu all the United States, and more than ;ne half of all the property in what are called the loyal States, to sayiiolhing of the debt incurred by tho rebel government iu the other Slates. ' . . This vast Mt has all been incurred wiihin three years, chiefly within the two last two, and it is still increasing at the rate of about $3,000,000 per day. At the Sifljc rate of progression, in less than two years more the public debt will be more than equal to the value of all (he propeity of all the loyal Slates, and it will not be much louzer, if the war continues. before the debt will more than equal ail the property ia all the States. Taking these figures as a basis, we would fuggest to those who are fond of historical research, the inquiry whether any people upon the face of the earth ever paid any such debt, or even the ititerest upon a public debt bearing such a proportion to the whole amount of their propeity? New Albauy Ledger. The Boston papers continue to make themstdres verv mrry over the self denial of Gen. D jw in not accompanying the escaping officers from the Libby. The Post say: "In refusing the tunnel, Neal Dow exhibited the strongest desire for Libby -ration." The Advertiser puts the same joke in this way; "It is prolfetble the General thought the prisoners weie 'running the thing iu the ground,' and perferred to take his Liobv-r.it ion in the usual MT A traveling office wagon for the Adjutant General's department of the Army of the Cumberland his ju3t been completed at a Government Shop. It U S new invention, and accommodates seven clerks and a driver, i dnwn bv four horses, and can be tken apart and put togptber in five mlnole. A similar one will be shortly completed Ur Den. Pies san ton's cavalry corps in the Army of the Potomac.

Tlie New Conscription L.aw Tho Act'

aa it 1'ancd lleita llouaes of Congress. An Act to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act for Carolling and Calling out the National Forces,, and for other Purposes, ' Approved March Third, Eighteen Hcndrecd and Sixty-Three. Ba it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, n Congress assembled, Tbat the President of the Unitrd States shall be authotized, whenever ie shall deem it necessary, during the present war, to call Tor auch number of men lor the militarv service of the Uuited States, as the pub lic exigencies may require. Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That the quota of each ward of a city, town, township. precinct, or election dietnct, or of a county, where the county is not divided into wards. towns, townships, precincts, or election districts, shall be, as nearly as possible, in proportion to the number of men resident therein liable to render military service, taking into account, as far as practicable, the number which has been previously furnished therefrom; and in ascertaining and filling raid quota there shall be taken into account the number ol men who have heretofore entered the naval service of the United States, and whose names are borne upon the en rollment lists as already returned to the office of the Provost Marshal General of the United States. Skc. 3. And be it further enacted. That, if the quotas shall not be filled within the time desig nated by the President, the Provost Marshal of the district within which any ward of a citj, town, township, precinct, or election district, ot county, where the same is not divided into ards, towns, townships, precincts, or election districts, which is deficient iu its quota, is situa ted, shall, uuder the direction of the Provost Marshal General, make a draft for the number deficient therefrom; but all volunteers who may enlist after the draft shall have been ordered, aud before it shall be actually made, shall be deducted from the number ordered to be drafted in such ward, town, township, precinct, election district, or county. . And if the quota of auy district shall not bo filled by the draft made in accordance with the provisions of this act and the act to which it is nu amendment, further drafts shall, be made and like proceedings had until the quota of such district shall be filled. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, that any person enrolled under the provisions of the act tor enrolling and calling out the national forces and for other purposes, approve) March third, eighteen hundied aud sixty-three, or who may be hereafter so enrolled, may fur-fish, at any time previous to the draft, an acceptable substitute who is not liable to draft nor at the time in the military or naval service of the United States, and such persons so furnishing a substi tute Fhall be exempt from draft during the time for which such substitute shall not be liable to draft, not exceeding the time for which such substitute shall have been accepted. - . Sxc. 5. And be it further enacted. That any person enrolled and dratted iuto the military ser vice of the United States may, before the time fixed for his nppearance lor duty at the draft rendezvous, furnish, an acceptable substitute, sub ject to such rules aud regulations as may be pre scribed by the Secretary of War. 1 hat if such Substitut is not liable to draft, the person fur bishing bim shall be exempt from draft during the time for which such substitute is liable to dralt, not exceeding the term for which be was drafted; and if such substitute i liable to draft, the name of the pet sou furuisning him shall again be placed on the roll, and shall be liable to draft on future calls, but not until the present enrollment shall be exhausted; and this exemption ghaH not exceed the term for which such person shall have been drafted. And auy person now iu the military or naval service, of the United States, not physically disqualified, who has so served more than one vear, and whose term of unexpired service shall not, at the time of sub stitution, exceed six moutbt, Tua be employed to serve as a substitute to serve in .be troops of the Slate iu which he enlisted; aud if any drafted person shall hereafter pay money for the pro curation of a substitute, under the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, such pay. tuenl of money shall operate only to relieve such person from dralt iu filling that quota; and his name shall be retained on the roll in filling future quotas; but in no iustance 6hall the exemption of any person, on. account of his paymeut of commutation money lor the procuration of a substitute, extend beyond one year: but at the end of one year iu every sucHcase the namp of any person so exempted shall be enrolled again, if not before returned tu the enrollment list under the provisions of this section. Silc. 6. And be it further enacted. That Boards of Enrollment shall enroll all persons liable to draft under the provisions of this act and the act to which this is an amendment, whose name may have been omitted by the proper enrolling officer; all persons who shall arrive at the age of twenty years, before the draft; all aliens who hall declare their intention to become citizens; all per sons discharged from the militarv or naval service of the United Slates, who hare not bteu in such service two years during the present war; and all persons who have been exempted under the provisions of the second section of the act to which this is an amendment, but alio are not exempted by the provisions of this act; and said Hoards ol Enrollment shall release and discharge from draft all persons who, between the time of enrollment and the draft, sliull have arrived nt the age of forty five years, and shall strike the uarues of such persons from the enrollment. Skc. 7 And be it lurther enacted, That any mariner or able seaman who shall be drafted mi der this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, shall have the right within eitfht days after the notification of such draft, to enlist in the naval service as a seaman; and a certificate that he has so enlisted being mide out iu conloi nitty with regulations which may be prescribed by tho Secretary of the Navy nd duly prc.-ented to the Provost Marshal of the district in which such mariner or aide seaman shall have been dratted, shrill exempt him from such draft: Provided, That the period for which he shall have been enlisted into the naval service, shall not be less than the period fot which he shall have been drafted into the military service: Ami provided further, That the siid certificate shall declare that satisfactory proof has been mide before the naval officer is-uing the same, tint the siid per son so enlisting in the navy is a mariner by vocation, or an able seaman. Aud any person now iu the military service of the Untied Stares, who shall furnish satisfactory proof that he is .. mariner by vocation, or an able seamen, may enlist iu the navy under such rules and retrulati ins ns may be prescribed by the President of the United States: Provided, That such enlistment pj ly not be for less than the unexpired term of l is military service uor for less than one year. And the bounty money which auy mariner or seaman en listing from the army into the navy, may have received from-the United States, or from the Slate in which he enlisted iu the army, shall be deducted from the prize money to which he may become entitled during the time required ti complete his military service: And provided irt;,.cr. That the whole number of such transfer enlist ments s'ia!l not exceed ten thousand. Stc H And be it further enacted, That whenever any such mariner or able seaman shall have been exempted from such dralt in the ' military service by such enlistment i-do the naval service, under such due certificate thereof, then the ward, town, township, precinct or election c istrict, or county, when the same ia not divided into wards, towns, townships, precincts, or election districts, from which such person has been drafted, shall he credited with bis services to 'all intents aud purjsiscs as if he had been duly mustcied into the military service tinder such draft Si.c9. And be it further enacted. That all enlistments into the naval service of the United Stiles, or into the Marine Corps of the United States, that nuy be hereafter made of persons liable to service under the act of Congress entitled "An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be credited to the ward, town, township, precinct, or election district, or county, when the same is not divided into wards, towns, townships, precincts or election districts, iu which such enlisted men were or may be enrolled and liable to duty under the act aforesaid, under such proclamation as the Provost Marshal General of the United States may prescribe. Skc 10. And be it further enacted. That the following persons be, and they arc hereby exempted from enrollment and draft under the provisions of this act and of the act to which this is an amendment, to-wii: Such as are rejected as physically or menially unfit for the service, all persona actually in the military or nival service of the United States at the time of the draft, and all persons who hare served in the military or naval service two Team during the present war, and been honorably discharged therefrom; nnd no persons but such as herein exempted shall be exempt. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted. That section third of the "Act for enrolling and callinz out the national forces, and for other purposes," approve) March 3, 1863, and so mach of section ten of s tid act ns provides for the separate enroll mert of each cla?s. be, and the stmo are herebv repesled; and it shall be the duty of the Board of Enrollment of each district to consoli

date the two classes mentioned in section third of said act.

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall forcibly resist or Oppose any enrollment, or who shall incite, counsel, encour are, or who shall con?ptre or confederate witn any other person or persons forcibly to resist or oppose any such enrollment, or a ho shall aid or assist, or take any part iu any forcible resistance or opposition thereto, or who shall sssault, ob struct, biodtr, impede or threaten any officer or person employed iu making or in aiding to aiake such enrollment, or employed in the performance, or in aiding in the performance of any service in any way relating t Hereto, or in arresting or aiuing to arrest any spy or deserter from the military service of the United States, shall, upon convic tion thereof in anv court competent to try the offense, be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceed ng five years, or by both of said punishments, in the discretion of the court. And in cases where such assaulting, obstructing, hindering or imped insr shall produce the death of such officer or oth er person, the offender shall ne deemea guilty oi murder, and upon conviction thereof upon in dictment in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district within which the offense was committed, shall be punished with death. And nothine in this section contained shall be construed to relieve the party offending from liability under jroper indictment or process for any crime against the laws ot a State, committed by him while violation- the provisions of this sec tion. Srr. 13. And bait further vacted. That the Secretary of Warshall be authorized to detail or appoint such number of additional Surgeons for temporary duty in the examination ot persons drafted into the military service, in any district, as may be necessary to secure the prompt examination of all such persons, aud to fix the com pensation to be paid Surgeons so appoiuted while actually employed. And such Surgeons, so de tailed or appoiuted, shall perioral toe same duties as the Surgeon of the Board of Enrollment, except that they f hall not be permitted to rote or iTlw'uh the Board of LnrollmenU .- - Sxc. 14. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary ol War is authorized, whenever in his judgment the public interest will be subserved thereby, to permit or requ're JSoards ot Examination of enrolled or drafted men to hold their examinations at different points within their respctive enrollment districts, to be determined by him; Provided, That in all districts over one hundred miles in extent, and in nch as are composed of over ten counties, tue ooara shall- no id tneir sessions in at least two places in such district,' rwnd at such points as are best calculated to ac commodate the people thereof. ' Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That Provost Marshals, Doanls of Enrollment, or any member thereof, acting by authority of the board, shall have power to summon witnesses iu behalf of the government, and enforce their attendance to attachment without previous payment of fees, in any e ise pending before rhem; and the fees allowed for witnesses attending under summons shall be six cents per mile for mileage, counting one way; andlio other fees or costs shall be allowed tinder the provsions of this section; and they shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations And any person who shall willfully and corruptly swear or affirm falsely before any Provost Marshal or Board of Enrollment, or meiuter thereof, acting by authority of the board, or who shall, before any civil magistrate, willfully and corruptly swear or affirm falsely to any affidavit to be used in any case peuding before any Provost Marshal or ' Board of Enrollment, shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisoned not less than s'x months nor more than twelte months. 1 lie drafted men shall have process to bring in witnese. but without mileage. Sec. 16. And be it further enscted. That cop ies ot any record of a Provost Marshal r Board of Enrollment, or of any part thereof, certified by the Provost Marshal, or a mnjority of said Board of Etirollme.it. shall be deemed and taken as evidence in auy civil or military court in like manner ns the original record; Provided. That if anv person shall knowinlv certifv any false ropv or copies of such record, to be used in any civil or military court, he shall be subject to the pains and penalties of peijury. Sec. 17. And be it lurther enncted. That mem bers of religious denominations, who shall by oath or affirmation declare that they are conscientiously opposed to the be-ring of arms, and who are prohibited from doing so by the rules and ar tides of faith aud practice of said religious de nom iniion shall, when drafted into the service of the United States be considered as non combattants, and shall be assigned by the Secretary of War to duty in the hospitals, or to the care of freed m?n. or shall pay the sum of three hundred dollars to such person as the Secretary of War shall de-ignite to receive it, to be applied to the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers; Provided, That no person shall be entitled to the benefit of the provisions of this section unless his declaration of conscientious scruples shall be supported by salisfactorv evidence that his deportment has been uniformly consistent ailb such dclara tion. . Sic. IK. And be it further enacted. That no person of fore go birth shall, on account of alien age, be exempted fnni the enrollment or draft under the provisions of this set, or the act to which this is an amendment, who has at auv time assumed the rights of a citizen by voting at any election held unJer authority of the laws of auy State or Territorv, or of the United State, or who has held any office under such laws or any of them; but the fact that tiny such person of foieicn birth has voted, or held, or shall rote or hohl, olli'-e as aforesaid, shall be taken as con elusive evidence that he is not entitled to exeiup tion on account f alienage. Stc. 19. And be it further enacted. That all claims to exemption ?hall be verified bv the oath or türm i tion of the parly claiming exemption, to the truth of the facts slated, un!es it shall satisfactorily appear to the Board of Enrollment that such party is for some Rood and sufficient reason unable to make such oath or affirmation; and the testimony of any other party filed in suppoit of a claim to exemption shall als) be made upon oath or affirm itiou. Sic 2'). And be it lurther enacted. That, if any person drafted and liable to military aerrice. shall procure a deci-ion of the Board of Enrollment in bis favor upon a claim to exemption, by any fraud or false misrepresentation practiced by himself or bv hi- procurement, such decision or exemption Khali be of no t-tfect, and the person exempted, or in whose favor the decision in t y be made, shall lie deemed a deserter, mid may be arrested, trie! Iv a court martial, and puni.-hed aj such, and shall be held to service for the lull term for which he was drafted, reckoning from the time of Ids rrest: Provided, That the Secretary of War m ty order the discharge of all persons in the military service who are under the age of eighteen je irs at the time of the applica tion for their discharge, when it lull appear up on due proof that such ler-ous are in the service without the consent, either expressed or implied, of their parent or guardians: And provided further. That such persons, their parents, or guardians, shall first repay to the O veri;mei:. and to tho State and local authorities, all boun'ies and advance pay which may have been paid to them, anything in the act to which this i an amend nient to the contrary notwithstanding. Skc. 21. Anl be it further enacted. That auy person who shall procure, or attempt to procure, a false report from the Surge n of the' Board of Enrollment, concerning the physical conditiöu' of any drafted person, or a decision in favor of such person by the Board of Enrollment upon a claim to exemption, knowing, the samt to be false, shall, upon conviction in any District or Circuit Court of the United Slates, bo punished by imprisonment for the period for which the party was drafted. Skc 22. And be it further enacted. That the fees of ageuts and attorneys for making out and cau.-ing any papers to be executed in support of a claim for exemption from draft, or for any services that may be rendered to the claimants, shall not, in any case, exceed five dollars; and physicians or Surgeons furnishing certificates of dis ability to auy claimant for exemption from draft, shall not be entitled to any fees or compensation therefore. And any agent or attorney who shall, directly or indirectly, de maud or receive auy greater compensation for his services under this act, and any physician or Surgeon who shall, directly or "iudirectly, demand or receive any Compensation fjr furnishing said certificate of disability, and any officer, clerk or deputy connected with the Boartt of Enrollment who shall receive compensation from any drafted man for any services, or obtaining the perl'oruiicce of such service reqni.ed from any member of said board by the provisions of this act, shall be deemed yuilty of a high misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall, for every offence, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered upon information or indictment before any court or competent jurisdiction, one half for the use of any iufurmer who may prosecute for the aame in the name of the United States, end the other half for the use of the United States, and shall also be subjected to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, at the discretion of the eourt. Sec 23. And be it further enacted. That no member of the Board of Enrollment, and no Sursreoc detailed or employed to assist the Board of Enrollment, and no clerk, assistant, or employe

of any Provost Marshal or Board of Enrollment, shall, 'directly or indirectly, be engaged in procuring, Of attempting to pfocure. substitutes for persons" drafted or liable to be drafted into the

military service or the United States; and if any member of a Board of Enrollment, Surceon, clerk, assistant, or employe, shall pro -ure, or attempt to procure a substitute for any person drafted, or liable to be drafted as aforesaid, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and sball upon convicuon be punisned bv imprison ment not less than thirty days nor more than six months, and pay a fine not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, by any court competent to try the offense. Seo. 124. And be it further enacted, Tbat the. fifteenth section of the act to which this is amend atory, be so amended that it will read as follows: That any Surgeon charged with the duty of such inspection, who shall receive from any person whomsoever aay money or other valuable thing; or agree, directly pr indirectly, to receive the same to his own or another's use, for making an imperfect inspection, or. a false or incorrect re-r port, or who shall wilfully neglect to make a faithful inspection and true report; aud each member of the Board of Enrollment who shall wilfully agree to the discharge from service of any drafted person who is not legally and properly entitled to such discharge, shall be tried by a court martial, and, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not less than three hundied dollars and not more than ten thousand dollars,' shall be imprisoned at the discretion of ihe court, aud be cashiered and dismissed the service. Sec. 25. And be it further enacted, That all able-bodied male colored persons, between the ages of twenty and forty-five years, resident in the United States, shall be enrolled according to the provisions of this act, and of the act to which this is an amendment, and form part of the national forces; and when a slave of a loyal master shall be drafted and mustered into the service of the Uuited States, his master shall have a certifi- -cate thereof, and thereupou such slave shall be free; and the bounty of one hundred dollars, now payable by law for each drafted man, shall be paid to the person to whom such drafted person was owing service or labor at the time of his muster into the service of the Uuited States. The Secretary of War 6hall appoint a commission in each of the slave States represented in Congress, charged to award to each loyal person to whom a colored volunteer may owe service a just compensstion, not exceeding three hundred dollars, for each such colored volunteer, payable out of the fund derived from commutations, and every such colored volunteer, on beinjj mustered into the service, shall be free. And in all cases where men of color have been heretofore enlisted, or have volunteered in the military service of the United States, all the provisions of this act, so far as the paymeut of bounty aud compensation are provided, shall be equally applicable as to those ho may be hereafter recruited. But men of color drafted, or enlisted, or ho may volunteer into the military service, while they shall be credited oti the quota of the several States or subdivisions of States, wherein they are respectively dratted, enlisted or shall volunteer, shall be assigned as State troops, but shall be mu-tered into regiments or companies as United States colored voluutecrs. :o. 2b". And be it further enacted, That the words "precinct" and "election district" as used in this net, shall not be construed to require any subdivision for purposes of enrollment and dralt, less than the wards into which any city or village may be divided; or the towns or township. into which any County may be divided. -' Ssx. 27. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act entitled "an act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes," approved on the. 3d day of March, lf63, as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this act, is hereby repealed. Wliat I m Copperhead! Hon. Lkvi Bisnor, of Detroit, Michigan, gave the following definition of a copperhead, iu a speech in a late political catnpiign in that State. Hon. Ltvi Bishcf is n eloquent, able and distinguished advocate of the rights of the people, and does not get frightened by epithets, as the following plump us wer to this question will show: We often hear it said of lieraocrats, "He's a copperhead, he's a hitier copperhead, shun him, cut him. don't con men a rice him, don't associate -with him, don't trade with him, don't give him business, ruin him. cru-ih him, for he Is an inveterate copperhead." Well, hat is a copperhead? Our opponents are very fond of coining names, which they imagine to be severe or opprobrious. I remember how they got up the term locofoco, ami aj.plied it by way ol reproach to Democrats and the Democratic party. Hut they rubbed themselves a little too closely against that term. That term reminds one of a useful domestic institution, which "goes of)"', by way of friction, and our then political opponents soon found that the political, enthusiasm, md combustion, asso ciated with the term loco loco, were damaging to thwe who invented it, r:.her than to those to whom it was applied. The abolitionists, ever conscious of -the just odium into which they, their pirty, their party platform and their political nostrums have fallen, on account of the tiemendous calamities they have brought up n the country, have engaged in the dignified business of coining approbrkitis terms and applying (thein to all who will not be led, or governed, or driven by their ruinous fa naticism. The term "copperhead" is one of their choicest epithets. To hear the marked emphasis with which they pronounce it, oue would imagine it to be the cnidinat expression of the the age, full pointed, well defined, clear and com prehens: ve the whole signification: an expression that told torv, carried every p"liel point. silenced every competitor, and vanquished every disputant, aud, like charity, covered a multitude of sins in thoe a ho apply it. But hat does it mein' Whit is its signification? In mint counts its severity, its reproach? What docs the critter mean when he applies it? Who will give the answer? As generally applied and accepted, I tke it to mean a sound national Democrat; one who loves his country, its Constitution, its freedom and its free institutions; one who would, by all means in his power, prorwwe the frternn and friendly Union of all the States, nnd the people of all the Slates, and who is willing, ready and determined to maintaiu the Constitution and the Union. in their integrity against all assaults, one who eschews and detest, political ubolitionism iu nil its pli.ies, in all its corruptions, ami who deplores its bitter, bloody and destructive fruits In short, a "cupperhe m!" is a man who designs simply to maintaiu our system of free gov ernmcnt as our fithers founded it, as their sue cessors administered it, and as we and posterity are bound by every motive of interest, patriotism and l.ouor to continue it lie still adheres, as every Democrat should adhere, to the good oldfashioned constitutional Union Democracy. He knows, politically, no North, no South, no East, no West, aud he opposes whatever he finds to he destructive to that system of free government, whether found at the E ist. West, North or South; or if perched up-in the Presidential chair at Washington. In-this view I most freely acknowledge a firm, determined, uncompromising, and if our opioiieiits please, a most inveterate "copper bead " It is sometimes said openly, and often insinua ted, that a "copperhead." or a Democrat, W in favor of secession, is in favor of rebellion, is in favor of a dissolution of the Union, is in favor of mobs, mob law and mob violence; in favor ol the defeat of the Union armies and of the disgrace of the Unioo flag; that he is opposed to the enlistments, opposed to necessary taxation, opposed to raifing necessa.T armies, oppjsed to the govern ment, and opposed to all proper means and agencies by which the Union and the government can be maintained. These are calumnies all calum u ies deliberate, willful and maliguant calumnies. A Democrat, or a "copperhead," if you please, w:ll sustain the Gooernnunt of the Unit d Slates under all circumstances, and indeed It is the very object and motive of the Democratic action, at the present time, to maintain the Government against all who would destroy it, whether North or South; aud at the same time, a Democrat, or a "coppethead," if you please, will oppose with his influence, voice and vote, whatever policy he may regard as unwise, that may be pursued by the Administration of the Government for the time leing, and whatever sction on their part he paar regard as unconstitutional, unwise, or ille gal. A Democrat regards, and will continue to regard the framework of the Government as one thins which is to be maintained at all hazards, at whatever cost and by whatever sacrifices; and at the same time he regards and will continue to regard the present administrators of the Government tha; is to say, Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet officers, and' his and tbeir subordinates and instruments as a very different thing, to be opposed at pleasure, to te resisted wheu they overstep the law of the land, and to be excelled from office and power at the first opoortuuity. 527"" A French physician has discovered that brandy or rum is the beet antidote for an over dose of chloroform. tW Lincoln has received the indorsement 'of the Plug Uglies in tbe Baltimore City Council.

Iterlvat ol the Democratic Party in Jtl Utanrl-Aa Addrett U tke Peaple An "Off Hand'v speech The Democracy of St. Louis held a meeting oo the S2d iust., at which a most able addreas to the people, prepared by Ciuis.Keibbex, Esq".,' was adopted, and ordered to be printed in pam

phlet form; after, which speeches were made by N. E. Claibobxe, Esq., and General McKixstkt. We subjoin a brief report of Mr. Ct-AiBoaxa'a off hand effort: I came here to 1'uten, not Ux speak. For the last five years I have been politically tongue tied. It is true that, on one or two occasions. my frieud Kribben and myself, having been al lowed to cross the Mississippi and breathe the free air of Democratic Illinois, have spoken to the unterrified Democracy; but in this city and State of my adoption my home I have beeu a Christian for three years without a church. 1 have been, as I said in the beginning, politically tongue tied. I did not know whether it would be exactly in keeping with Father Abraham's rule for me to speak out my sentiments or not; but. as the Presidential election is approaching as the time is shortly at band when every Amer ican citizen is to exercise that creat sovereign right of a fieeman, to go to the polls and cast his vote for the man of his choice I will take the privilege of saying before the gentlemen assem bled here to night (it is true we are few in nucn bers, but it is somewhere said in a book I hive not read for some time, that "where a few are gathered together in my name. I will be with them") I will take the privilege of sa)ing that, as far as 1 caucht the preamble and resolutions read by Col. Kribben, I indorse them, every word and senteuce, without dotting an i or crossing a t. f Applause. j I believe, sir, (and I do not intend to make a speech,) that the time has come when we, the Democratic party of this country, are in duty bound, not only by every memory ot the past, by our ancient allegiance to the Con stitution of the United States aud the laws made in compliance thereof, and by every hope for the present and futuie, that the time has come wheu we should rouse ourselves to action, and take our position as a party in the political elements of this country. I Applause. 1 Sir, I have believed for the last three years ever since the dark clouds of revolution have hovered over our beloved country that the vdly compass that could steer this couutry through the Scylla aud Charybdis that threatened our poliii cal destruct ion was the old time honored com pass of the National Democracv. Applause If there is no balm in Gile.ad, if tbete is no hope for the restoration of the Union iu the Demo cratic partv, then the old ship has gone to wreck irrevocably, iu my opinion, f Applause 1 I do not believe, sir. that the present party in power can steer her safely through the breakers that threaten bcr, and bring her back to the harbor of peace, prosperity, happiness and independence, and our old, lime honored devotion to human liberty and human right. What has this great republican party accomplished ? It has beeu in power for three tears. Mr. Liucolu was inaugurated as President of the United States on the 4th of March, lbCl. Ere betook his seat as President, the mere fact that a minority of the American people placed him upon a sectional-platform, and that he was erected to the Presidency as a sectional candidate, tore from that starry fi t? some eight or ten bricht particulsr stars. His first act was to call for seventy five thousand men to put down the rebellion and restore the Union. He had j just ns well, sir, have called for seventy-five thousand brick to have dammed the river that washes the base of your city and flows eternally to the Gulf of Mexico. Appl-use It was the first great error in his administration, and convinced every rational and sane man, that he was incapable of guiding the ship amid the storm Applause Now, I don't propose to make a speecn. luuignter j äs 1 tola you beiore. 1 dou't know what I would sar. if I was going to be executed Laughter It has been so long since 1 have spoken, I don't know exactly what foot to suit off upon ;.but I do know when I look Democrats iu the face. I feel I am still au American citizen. Loud applause. Well. 6ir, every chapur in the recorded history of this republican rule of ours is a chapter of misfortune, a chapter of error It has built a monument for itself. No doubt of that. Five hundred thousand citizens have beeu offered up, aud their bones lie bleaching on the soil of ur country, a mou oment to black republican rule. We are now in the third year of this rebellion, that seventy five thousand men weie to put down in ninety days, as prophesied by Seward in the beginning; a rebellion that Lovejoy declared a regiment of old women in flaunel petticoat could put down, aud now we find the President of the United States calling for 5!HI,U0ti more Am I not justified in saying. Mr. President, that every step that has been taken by this republican party in the sdm iti'e tmtioii of this government, from the elec tion of Lincoln up to the present time, has been an error, if not a fraud unnon the people of this country ? Applause Now, sir, I have to the conclusion it is hlt time this goveanment changed itj rulers. I desire to see the Union of the.-e States icstorcd ns much so as any man upon this continent and I am to night, sir , as 1 have been during all our troubles, a sterner aud better patriot even than any of the radicals who favor ne'ro equality dare to be Applause. I am for the Union of this country as uiven to us moulded by the plastic hand of God, and by the patriotic sires. A Union that received the sanctiou of Washington, Jefferson, and M tdison is good enough lor me It don't want the modern improvements of Abraham Lincoln. Applause But 1 d"ii't intend to mak a speech. Laughter I remit'u-Ki in St Louis for the purpose of attending the negro equality convention of Louisville. I had some curiosity to see of what material that body would be composed, and what tjew political dogmas they would dare promul gate iu the face of God and the American people, upon (he birthday of the immaculate Washington; but' I concluded to forego the pleasure of beinü an outsider iu S'dom and Gomorrah, for the pleasure of meeting here one hundred or one hundred aud fifty of the old fashioned, honest Democrats of St. Louis. Applause It always makes me feel like n boy at camp meeting. Now 1 don't know how long this thins will be allowed to pro-jres L inghter They may put n the brakes to-morrow, and say that he who dared to meet in the Y ashiuglon Hall, bear ing the sacred and honored name of the Father of his country, "on the niinivcrarv of Itis birth I say I don't know but the brakes may be put on to-morrow, and that Chris. Kribben, lor the resolutions he has promulgated here, and I, humble as I am, for indorsing them, may be ordered down South, or somewhere ele laughter or ordered to onumer at the headquarters for what wc have chanced to si uj-on this occasion. Well, sir, so be it Applause The time has come when an American citizen, an old fashioned, old line Demorrat, a mn that has lived and proved his devotion for thirty vears to the stars and stripes, t nun that has never uttered a sentiment against the Constitution of his country the time has come, and is now, for a man to siy what he pleases without being hauled over the coals, and he might just as well answer now as to answer hereafter for I am as ready lo die now as I ever will be. Laushrer. I will try to talk sense two minutes and a half and then quit. I don't intend to make a speech. Laughter I don't want it said I made a speech, but this I wir) say: .A convention is to be called on the 4th of July at Cuicago. It is a good day for the Democratic party to meet. We have our faults, but hang me if it is not the honcstest, truest, best constitutional Union party that ever did exist in this country. They talk about our not being a war party. , Why, sir, iu 1j12-'15, wheu Madisou was President, who stood by the Government of the United States? It wn the Democratic ptrty. In more recent times, wheu we a ere engaged in a war with Mexico, and black Tom Cor in ami t'nwe Boston politicians aere desirous that ihe Mexicans should welcome our soldiers "with blo-xly hands to hospitable praves," who stood by the country? The Democratic party, and it stand by the Constitution and the couutry to day! We have got some Democrats in the field,' or did have. McClellan was a pretty cood Democrat, and was beginning to loom up as certain to be the nexf President, when Father Abraham chopped off his head and left him out in the cold, Old United States Grant is a Democrat, and may be nominated by the Democratic party at Chicago If he is. he will sweep over the country like a prairie on fir applausej. aud I hould uot be sut prised if his head was chopped off. They say Rosecrans is a Democrat. I don't know him. Well, they took the pin feather out of him at Chattanooga. Ltughter It would not do for us to express any preference for him, for they would snip Lis tail off quicker than a wink. Lnnghter. But I am not going to try to make a speech lam going to wait until after the Chicago convention. Whoever that couventiou nominates and indorses, is the man to be run and voted for by the Democratic partv, and when the nomination is made, I will puil of my coat, roll up my sleeves snd go into tbecauvass "root hog or die." Applausej tZT A patent safety pocket has been invented gainst pickpockets.

THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.

SENATE. WAsaikoTOK, February 23. The Senate proceeded to the consideration of the bill to equalize the pay of the soldiers in the army. Au amenumeut of Davis, which proposed to disarm the negro troops wss voted down by 30 The Senate agreed to the report of the Com mittee of Conference on the revenue bill. The consideration ot the bill to equalize the pay of colored troops was then postponed. . 1 be Senate at 1:30 we;it into executive session. Mr. Sumner presented various petitions rela tive to the abolishment of slavery, from persons in Ohio and New York, and one from Got. Andrew, Josiah Quincv, aud members of tbe Senate and House of Representatives of the Stale of Massachusetts, for the same purpose. After the executive session the Senate ad journed. uorsE. i :, . The House resumed consideration of the bill to establish a Bureau foe Freed men's Affairs. Mr. Kelly advocated the bill, and pressed iu immediate passage - A message was received from the Senate that that body had concurred in the report ol the . committee of conference on the whisky bill. Mr. Stereos moved for concurrence in the report. Mr. Washburne, who dissented from the report, gave his reasons therefor. He was in favor of taxing liquors on baud, and wanted the report referred back for such modifications as would secure to the Treasury a proper income from that source. " . Fernando Wood still adhered to his former proposition to tax all whisky on hand, but was obliged to acquiesce in tbe decision of the majority of that committee-namely, that both bouses having agreed to strike out the clause, there was no such question in controversy. Mr. Kasson wanted the report referred to another committee lo accord with the sense of the House formerly expressed. The House refused yeas 57, nays 66 to agree to the report of the committee of conference. The terms of agreement were transmitted to the House yesterday iu advance of the report, and are already published. Another committee uf conference was then ordered. The navy appropriation bill was taken op. Mr. Blow, of Virginia, made a speech, after which the House adjourned. HOUSE. Washisgtos, February 24. , After soma unimportant business the House resumed consideration of the bill to establish a Freedmen's Bureau. Mr. Kice of Massachusetts moved to increase the appropriation for the construction anil repair of vessels from $22 .bOO.tXHi to $'2f..300,i;Ol). After some debnte it was agreed to 72 against 23. A long debate took place on tbe item of $135,IX K) for the purchase of two lots adjoining .lh Boston Navy Yard. Au ineffectual motion aas made to str'ke it out. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington. February 25. ' ' After the presentation of various petitions and memorials, on motion of Mr. Fessenden the Senate adopted the conference committee's report on the leveuue-bill, and appointed a new committee to confer with that appoiuted by the House. The bill relatine to Assistant Paymasters in the navy aas called up by Mr. Hale, aud after amended, pased. On motiou of Mr. Wilson the bill equalizing the pai of soldiers was called op aud debate eusued on the pending amendment oi Mr Colla mer. Mr. Powell introduced a bill repealing all acts granting all bounties or tonnage of vessels engaged in the cud fisheries, which was referred. Tbe Senate receded from its vote agreeing to the conference committee's report on the revenue bill, and another conference committee was ordered. The bill relating to appointments in the naval service was taken up and amende! by strikitig out the claise didiariog volunteer officers within sixty dsys after the return of vessels, and addin? an additional clause empowering court martial lo reduce to seamen such officers as absent themselves from their commands. As thus amended it passed. The bill equalizing the pay of soldiers was then taken up, the question being on the arrendment lo iuclude all persons enlisted under the call of October. ltC'2, in the bounty provisions. An amendment to this amendment was adopted, providing that all tersons whose papeiaehow they hare enlisted under the act of lt61, shall receive the pay and bounty promise! in the statute. An amendment extending the pay and bounty to free persons was debated, w hen the subject was postponed till to-morrow. The Military Committee was instructed to inquire into the expediency of extending the bounty to April. Adjourned. . HOUSE. Mr. Wnshburtie of Illinois moved to take op the Huiu-e bill to revive the grade of Lieutetjat.t (general, ms returned from the Senile, with the amendment strikirg out the recommendation that General Grnt be appointed to that position. He said bis object was to disagree to the Senate amendment in order .that a committee of conference miht be a eked. ' Fmck objected. The House resumed the consideration of the bill to establMi a Lutcau of Irvcdn'.en' sffairi. Mr Davis of Maryland defended the validity of the late Mart land electhms aud snoke of the progiess ol emancipation there They wer taue" er small obligations to President Lincoln for hat bad been done. He advoca'ed an amendment of the Constitution resolutely declaring as a condition prt-ceient of re ndmissiou into the Union, that slavery be forever abolished in the Southern States. Mr. D vis concluded by speaking against the colonization of the frcedmeti. It was iucorapatinle with true policy and humanity. Mr. Washburne then succeeded in procuring the apnaintment of a committee cf conference on the disagreeing antendmeut to the Lieutenant General bill. Mr. Stevens, from the Committee of Ways tnd Means, reportel a bill t-rovidin; as follow: That of the $G00,UlMl.lrf0 loan authorized by the act of March 3d. 1-G3. in 10 4d's, $100.000,Uta be put in the muket redeemable in i.ot less than 5 yers not more than 4D. Mr. Stevens sked for the immediate passage of the bill. Mr. Brooks asked if the bill did not also authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an additional ten or twelve millions ot 5 20 stock already subscribed for. Mr. Stevens stid yes. to the amount of ten millions. By common consent ac ion on the bill was postponed until it could be pin ted. The naval aptropriation bill was then taken up. The clause appropriating $'215.000 for the Philadelphia Navy Yard was discussed, and stands as reported hj ihe Committee After a long debate, Mr. Stevens moved to insert a uew section to provide for the erection of floating' docks for monitors at New York and Philadelphia. Agreed to. The bill then passed. The bill to extend time on withdrawal of goods in public stores and bonded warehouses was amended by changing the time from the first of Juue to the first of September ardthen passed. Adjourned. Central (irant and fine "Presidency We nave good reason for saying tint the statement that General Grant " has written a letter to his father, declaridg that be will not aecept a nomination for the Presindency,' isentirely without foundation, as are likewise all similar statements lint have appeared from time to time in the psrtinn papers that sre interested In preventing hira from becoming a candidate. Genl. Grant, we assure the public, baa written do letter upon this subject to his father or any other person, excepting tbe letter to Hon. Mr. Washburne. In that letter. General Grant did say he would accept a nomination for the Presidency. It may be addel, however, that in all probability Genera) Grant would not and will not accept the nomination of any of the old political pmrtirt as such. General Grant feels that his present position iu the military service of the country is a national one, and he ptefeti we think wisely not to abandon it, or to be thrust nut of it, by mere yrf ttaa efforts to make him President.Circumstances may arise, however, under which we art sure General Grant will not decline to be a candidate for President. Chicago Post. . A war Democrat is one that sets as a guerrilla for abolitionists.