Indiana State Guard, Volume 2, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1861 — Page 1

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more thorough. ... We would here warn our friends to give to no one who ennnot show a certificate, signed by the President, of appointment as a Visitor of that District, as impostors have availed themselves of our name for the collection of money. We shall probably need aid this year more than ever before, as the distresses attendant upon war and commercial embarrassments will not only increase the number of those dependent onus, but also affect us as any household is affected by such events. The Society is now happily free from debt, thoui'h little monev remains to commence the year.

Instead, then, of lessening or discontinuing your contributions, we would rather ask that those who

can would double them. Respectfully submitted, Grettib Y. Holiday, Sec'y. These reports having been submitted to the meeting, were unanimously adopted. The following list of officers for the ensuing year was then read : President Mrs. M. D. Willard. Vice Presidents Mrs. Alfred Harrison, Mrs. S. F. Smith and Mrs. Wm. Judson. Treasurer Mis. E. S. Richmond.

Secretary Miss Grettie Y. Holiday,

the Divinity to give the victory to. the side on lis not piracy by the law of that country. The

which they are respectively retained. That is as jxonnirn oiaies, mereore, muse n tie wwwti w

Indianapolis Horticultural Society. The. Society-" -met on Siiurday, June I Dr Meats was called to the chair. On motion by Mr. Fletcher, the Society proceeded to elect its officers for the ensuing year.

Dr. Geo. W. Meats was elected President ;

David V. Culli-.y Vice President ; A. H. Brown, Secretary; C. Fletcher jr., Treasurer; Chairman of Committee on Fruits, W. H. Loomis; Chairman of Committee on veg tables, Dr. R. T. Brown. The selection of the Chairman of Committee on Flowers was postponed until next meeting. On motion, Friday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, was fixed upon as the regular time for holding the weekly meetings. The subject of strawberry culture was agreed upon for discussion at the next meeting. Mr. Loomis announced that the Indiana Poniolo"ical Society, in conjunction with the Richmond Horticultural Society, would give an exhibition on the J 2th and I3lh June, at Richmond. It was announced that Prof. H. T. Brown would lecture each day the following week to his class at the N. W. Christian University upon Horticultural and kindred subjects, commencing at noon each day to which the public are invited. The society adjourned to meet on Friday,

at 2 o'clock P. M., at Hotelier s .Nursery Uffiee on Pennsylvania street.

Managers.

Mrs. Paxton. " Chapman, " Brouse, " Wilkens, " Givan ..." W. A. Holiday, " Newman, "Lynch, 'A. Morris, " Fish back, " Governor Morton, " Hale, " Stough ton Fletcher, " Calvin Fletcher, " A. Gray don,

Annual Meeting of the Orphan Society, The annual meeting of the Orphans' Societywas held on Sabbath afternoon, May 19, at Masonic Hall. The meeting was organized by calling Jas. M. Ray, Esq.;-to the Chair and making Mr. Ben Harrison Secretary. The Treasurer's report shows the receipt for the year to be $1,277 OS, and the total expendi

tures $1,120 89, leaving a balance on hand of

8156 19. .; " The following is the annual report of the Secretary. In presenting our annual report according lo custom, we find.no incidents of peculiar interest to record for the past year, but it seems right that the friends and benefactors of our institution should know, as far as may be, the progress and condition.

The children placed under our care, have very

little romance attached to mem. i neir Histories,

when known, are only the same old tale of pov erty and vice.

In soliciting your aid in their behalf, we cannot, therefore, arouse your sensibilities by drafts

on the imagination. It is to principle w appeal

that principle which urges to effort, though the

return ol its labors may seem uouduui anu iar off. We appeal to you to benefit the rising generation ; to make of these homeless, neglected ones good men and women, who shall continue to bless the world when you are gone. As we trust much good has already been accomplished through our instrumentality, even in the present year. At the presentation of our last report, there were thirteen children in the Asylum. Since then we have received seventeen, making thirty under our care during the year. The average.

number there atone time has been ten. Ul these, thirteen have been bound out and adopted in families. Six have died from diseases contracted, with one exception, before we look charge of them.

Ten are vet in tho Asylum. In the month of

February we engaged a new Superintendent now in charge. Although we have before expressed our obligations lo the kindness of some of our friends, il is thought that the present lime may make a reacknowledgmenl suitable. As mentioned in the Treasurer's report in May last, some of our young ladies held a festival, and in the following September, many of them assisted in theconcert given for our benefit by Prof. Ascher. At the same time we received a liberal donation of provisions

for the use of the Asylum, from the military at

Visitors

Mrs. Ludden, " Belle Ali'ord, ' C. Beech, " John H. Ohr, " J. C. Hilderbrand. " J. A. Kunklcman, " Jacob Landis. " Joseph Landis, " Wm. Stewart, " Kruger, " Jones, " Charles Williams, Miss Belle Sheets, " Mag McCarly, " Hannah Taylor, " Gertie Newmnii,

Advisory Committee Governor Morton, Messrs. J. Wilkens, Calvin Fletcher, A. G. Willard, Alfred Harrison, S. F. Smith, J. R. Osgood, Rev. Williams and Dr. Fishback.

Remarks were then made by Revs. Messn

Stringfellow and Simmons, and Mr. Osgood

which were instructive and entertaining ; also by

the chairman.

It was moved and seconded that the several

Sabbath schools of the city, following the exam

pie of the Baptist School, should, during; the pies

ent year, take up collections for the benefit of the

Society. The motion being laid belore the meet

inir. was carried

Hie meeting then adjourned, alter singing ny

the Bautist Sabbath school.

.Notwithstanding the threatening aspect ot the

weather, the attendance was cood, and the meet

mg ilselt very encouraging to ine inenos oi ine

Society

entertain that ovinion. It is very important," he

added, "that her Majesty s government should not commit themselves to the doctrine that the United States-should lay down the principle of a universal blockade, and that that blockade would

be recognized by her Majesty's government." Lord Chelmsford commented upon the serious step taken by the British Cabinet, in "admitting the Confederate States to be entitled to the lights of belligerents," but it was clear that " Southern

the schism in relio-ious, and privateers could not be treated as pirates. the

societies, is as deep and bit- tai l of Ellenborough was of the opinion that

some oi tnem naa oeen nangeo aireauy, ana feared the consequences of the conversation that had taken place, which, by the way, his own interpellations gave rise to. All this means cotton, cotton, cotton, and a

old as the formation of society, and will probably

last as long. liven here, where our people constitute but one nation, and our various denominations have the same communion, we have seen veneruble prelates and clergy in one section of the country offering solemn thanksgiving for an event which lowered the national enblem, and placed a rebel banner on Fort Sumter ; while in the other section the same event turned our min

isters of peace into the most active promoters of

war. bince then, even in benevolent

ter as it is in the general body politic

We now find that the General Assembly of the Old School Presbyterians, sitting in Philadelphia, and the Baptist Union Convention, sitting in

Brooklyn, have been devoting their attention, not

to the spiritual affairs of their respective church-! greedy craving, on the part of the aristocracy

es, but to the question of war, and have each : and governing classes of great Brilnin, to hum

passed long series of resolutions of a decidedly

! ble a nation, become a first class Power in the

bellicose character. To the sentiments embodied in their resolutions we lake no exception, as they

are generally sound and patriotic ; but wo do think that religious bodies would best promote the interests ol religion by keeping aloof from extraneous questions, , We would recommend to their adoption' the sensible course of Lord Brougham, who says he has made up his mind to take no pari in abolitionist meetings or movements till the troubles in America, arising out of the negro question, are settled. Let the religious societies form the same sensible resolve, and we will get out of our present difficulties all the sooner.

Social Revolution in our Midst.

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The civil war 'through which we are now

sintr has not only broken up all political organi

zations, and that, too, in less than two months from the firing of the first gun, but is likewise

bringing about a wonderful revolution socially

In no one point is this revolution more apparent

than at the headquarters oi our saorjain committees, anti-slavery and temperance iocieties, and

the pretended reformers of that school. The Sabbatarians declare that the Sunday laws were

never less needed than at present; the temper ance and Maine law advocates that tiie consump

lion of liquor increases, while the anli-slavery la

natics are left high and dry by the adverse tide

the direct result of the war which they assisted

in bringing upon the country. Their slock in trade has become valueless under the patriotic

gathering in defence of the Stars and Stripes and they, like the Sabbatarians, are obliged t

seek other callings to oblnin food for their fami

I ICS.

Nor is there any prospect when the war has

ended, peace and quiel is once more restored lo our excited country, and business revives and returns to its regular and legilimate channels, that

they will experience any return ot their departed

fortunes. Their lime and season have passed

away, and their mission, whether for good or evil hasin the struggle to test the strength of repub lican institutions, ended, no more lo return. None are so fully aware of the fact as the mana

gers of these societies themselves. The anti-slavery tracts, anli-slavery speeches and books are

no longer sought alter, while tnc donation norn the ancient maiden ladies and long-faced Puritans have all been cut off. This applies lo all grades of abolitionists and anti-slavery agitators

of the North ; it is impossible for them to obtain

followers in New Jingland. the contest tode

tide the permanency of the government has forced

them into seclusion from which the cessation of

hostilities will not bring them forth.

When the clash of arms has ceased and the

thousands of volunteer soldiers, with their ranks thinned bv the bullet and disease return to their

homes, the public will, then free from excitement.

deliberately survey the field and ascertain who

has been responsible lor all this bloodshed and suffering ; and when they see, as see they must, that the anli-slavery agilators have been foremost in plunging the country into this fratricidal war, they will not be again found contributing to those societies from whose influence it cost the nation so much blood and treasue to recover. The last advices from Europ indicate that John Bull has discovered his mistake in aiding these agitators,

and if they make this discovery in less than sixty

Camp Union. A more recent gift is that of bf- daV8 fler tlie commencement of hostilities, how

teen dollars in small com from the children of I he I much more m (ie public at home realizs their Baptist Sabbath School. For the kind thought el ror jf we are compeled to go through n two or

which prompted sucn a nonauon, we presume t,ree TenrB war v 'j-le Slgng C the times are we may thank tho officers of the school, while we ; significant of extraordinary changesin public sencanuol bul rejoice that the children under their tjme,, nol only jn t,e North and South, but charge arc so early learning to fce! for those less; throughout Europe, and apolitical, moral and happy than themselves. ; ,ocj revolution has commenced. The first In this conueclion we may say that our friends; waveS(1f w,jci, we nre n0w experiencing, and seem to be many, and the disposition to help and ti)e eItl.nt Qf which no human eye can discern or support is not lacking. Our chief need ' of : prophet foretell. A". Y, Herald. those who will efficiently engage in the active , 1 service of. the Society. With the aid of those ; TTr , , . ,. skillful to plan and direct, seconded by hand.! War Notions of Church Societies. ready to work, nd supported by a willing pub-j lie. who can say how much the usefulness of our j It has not been reserved for this age to make association might be increased ? The experi- the discovery that the sanction and blessing of ment of the past year has however, been far from ! religion 'fan alwsys be obtained for ny side of a encouraging in this respect. Not more than six ' great question, and that whether the Cresent and districts have been well visited, while the restj the Cross are opposed, or whether one Christian have been almost entirely neglected, among these! nation wars against another, holy ministers of being several of the most important. . We can- religion will bless the adverse banners, and sue

The Presidents Views on the Fugitive Slave

- Question.

Washington, May 30th, 1861. Colonel Butler, brother and aid to Gen. Butler, left here this afternoon for Fortress Monroe, in charge of an

immense amount ol ammunition. Colonel Butler had an interview with the President last night relative to the disposition to be made of the slaves that are flocking to the standard of our advancing column. The subject is one upon which the President was not prepared to act hastily. He was not inclined to question the course pursued by Gen. Butlor, knowing that he was compelled to dispose of such matters as they arise, until he received instructions to do otherwise from headquarters. The President said he viewed the question as a very grave one. While he could not see that our officers were obliged to leave their legitimate military business to

pursue and return fugitive slaves, under a nvii law which their disloyal masters did not recog

nize, at the same time he could not understand that our armies are obliged to receive, feed and

clothe them, thereby diminishing the supplies of

our armies in the enemy's country. If the negroes run away, they must do it upon their own responsibility, The army is under no obligation to protect them, and will not encourage nor interfere with them in their flight. The president, for the present, prefers to leave the whole matter to the sound judgment of Gen. Butler, whom the President took occasion to compliment in high terms, than to act hastily in issuing instructions on the subject. Since writing my former dispatch the President has submitted to the Cabinet the question upon which General Butler nsks for instructions, relative to the disposition to be made of runaway slaves seeking shelter within his lines. He has been officially notified of the approval of his conduct. He is, therefore, for the present, to put such slaves to labor, keep an exact account of ils value, and of the expenses of their subsistence.

It is quite apparent that when our lorces shall haveadvanced farther into the slaveholding country, and large crowds of slaves of all ages and

both sexes shall ny to our lorces lor protection

that the question will then assume much larger

proportions, and be surrounaeo oy greater uimculties, and those cases must be met as they arise. -

world, through the force of democratic institu

tions. The insidious representations of Lord Lyons, similar to those of Sir Henry Bulwer,

some years Ago, have contributed to confirm the idea that the United States can be instilled, and her wishes disregarded, with perfect impunity. The press of London, and, to a still greater degree, that of the manufacturing districts of Eng

land, has fallen into a panic respecting the probable effect upon trade of a blockade of the Southern ports; and the conjuncture is deemed a favorable one to decry and villi Cy' us, and hold us up to the world as destitute of either energy or strength. The duly of the' administration, at Washington, is, in the meanwhile clear. An immediateunderstanding should be arrived at, through Mr. Adams, with Lord Palmerslon; the hostile attitude assumed by the Court of London should be changed; and the course that has been pursued by Lord Lyons should be marked as it deserves, either by giving his passports, or obtaining from him n proper amende for the mischief

he has done. A', x.-Herald, June 3.

a hundred thousand. It is tho sublimest struggle of modern times, and one in which your very existence as a great nation is staked. Let the South break off, either with or without foreign aid, and where is your future national greatness? A respectable nation, certainly, but not the one that could grow up between the great lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. Six months will certainly decide the question, and you may a well believe it. If you have virtually conquered in that time, well and good ; but if you have not, then you will find new complications and infernal interference. You had better have a Dictator, a King or an Emperor, and have the country under martial law from ono end to the other for one or two years, and crush your enemies out, than get beaten by foreign interference and British sympathy. Your affairs are now in your own hands: iu six months they may not.be. Let women cultivate the liehls, high born ladies learn how to be military tailors and act as nurses, and let children be kept home from school to do all kinds of work, and save your nation frmn the dangers that threaten it from within and without; for your affairs never looked so serious as they do at present.

The Battle at Fairfax.

Letter from London.

The Machivellian Policy of Great Britain towards the United StatesThe details of the debate in - the, House of

Lords, on the 16th ultimo, as received by the America's mails, and published yesterday, gives us particulars; respecting language used on lhat

occasion, ot the gravest importance, anu oi a

far more aggressive nature towards the united States than had been previously reported by telegraph. Our correspondence by the America, published this morning, still further develops the offensive policy of the British government. The Lord Chancellor, who is the authoritative

exponent of the Palmerslon Ministry in ihe upper House, had not only repudiated the maritime code adopted by the treaty of Paris, but had gone so far as to pronounce that the United States has no right to punish British privateers

in Jefferson Davis's service as pirates! He added

that the war of the Confederate States against ern people, does not make a torced march right

the North was a just one, and their right as bel- through secession within four or five months,

lio-erents was "admitted. " His words Bie: "No completely regardless of climate, season and all one li. .. no Enulish subject) ought to be re-'other circumstances, then John Bull will have a

Correspondence of the New York Herald. The country is alarmed for the first time since

the American war opened. There is this week a

feeling of alarm and anxiety, and this feeling has

given rise to plans that are of great interest to

the American government. The Queen's proclamation has been issued,

and in entire good faith all loyal subjects of her

Majesty are enjoined not lo join either of the belligerents, and they are assured if they do-so

their government will not interfere in their behalf in the event of their vessels being captured or themselves made prisoners, So far so good. Now for the alarm. If the war is protracted even a twelvemonth, and the crop of cotton put in jeopardy or even curtailed, there will be wailing in Lancashire. Several Englishmen of position have told me that they believed if the supply was one million bales short of the averago it would produce such disirtss and lead to such a

convulsion in Manchester that the very existence of the British empire and the throne itself would be in danger. Tins is probably an exaggeration, but a scant supply of cotton will make a financial crisis and a period of distress and starvation that would require vast government aid, or there would be insurrection or a revolution. To avert that, this government are going to do everything possible to throw obstacles in the way of President Lincoln; in other words, to force your government to stop hostilities. You have seen the papers here up to this time, and how they have dealt in "bosh" and weak arguments

against "coercion, and in fact encouraged the South in teheir rebellion. You may be perfectly certain that Great Britain will follow up the proclamation and the discussions in Parliament by every possible species of interference, and if nothing else will suffice,

find a pretext to declare war against the United Slates to force them to abandon their present

ground and acknowledge the independence of

the South. Cotton must be had at all hazards.

And in the desire to sustain the South, and to

break the Union, this government will be second

ed bv i ranee, who burns to obtain some loothold

and interest in North America and the West

Indies. Schemes are now on fix. t 'to get financial aid to

the South, though with very slim prospects of

success. I believe this government, il there were any possible chance of doing it, would today -advance ten millions to the Southern Confederacy, if by so doing they could see their way clear to either a separation of the Union, a close of tl.e war or a full supply of cotton for the

next two years. Now, you mark my words, and you will find them true, just as certain as the sun continues to shine on you, if Mr. Lincoln's government sustained as it is by the twenty millions of North-

finger in the pie, and the Frenchman, too, and

you will have three wars on your hands instead

of one

A Napoleonic stroke a campaign like that

which culminated at Marenge a sudden strike

garded as a pirate for acting under a commission fiom a State admitted to be entitled to I lie exercise of belligerent rights, and carrying on what may be called a juslam beilum. Anybody dealing with a man under those circumstances as a

pirate, and putting him lo death, would be guilty, into the heart of the enemy's country is the

of murder." Lord Kingsdown followed the i mode you have got to conquer a peace and keep

Lord Chancellor, and announced that " England; out foreign interference.

had recognized the seceding States as a body This overbearing nation has had a hand in

possessing the rights of a belligerent;" that the every national quarrel in Europe for hundreds of

extravagant order ol the vvasnington govern- years, ana now inai me unnea otates nave oe

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ment in reference to privateering was a mere j gun to assume a position among me rowers oi

brutum Julmen; or, it not, that it "was a piecei ine eann, me imerierence must oe oegun on mat of barbarity which would raise an outcry through- side. I greatly hope I am mistaken in my surout the whole civilized world." Earl Granville, ! mizes, and would be loth to say one word to

member of the Cabinet, threw in his sneer at! encourage the South in the belief that they are

the blockade of the Southern coast, asserting! to receive aid and asisstance trom this side; that "mere paper blockades would not be recog-j but there is a fixed and full determination here nized," and commented upon the "agreement ofj and the press arc dragooned into it lo throw Paris as not altectualing a change in international! every species of ridicule, cold water, and mate-

law, excepting as regards those powers which I rial obstacles in the way of our government in signified their acceptance of it," thus ignoring! crushing this rebellion. It is not altogether from the last clause of the Paris treaty, by which' jealousy of our growing power, or love of inter-

those who "might hereafter" accept it, werei ference, or wish to breakup the Union, or to

placed on a par with those who had done so. secure a cotton supply, but they all hare their If those Peers who adhere to the Palmerslon i influence. Ministry were thus explicit in their quasi hostility I Now, if your Northern integral portion of the to the United States, the lords of the opposition country has any military strength, any fight and

were still more so. 1 apprenena, saia me any endurance, wun me aouur to carry on s

Earl of Derby, "that if there is one thing clearer

than another, it is that, by the law of nations,

tremendous campaign wan crushing lorce, vigor, and success, they have no time to lose. You

privateering is not piracy that no enactment on , have got to talk of fifty and a hundred million the part of any one nation can make that piracy! dollars at time instead of ten of millions, and

as regards the subject of another country, which four and five hundred thousand men instead of

The following coherent and probably reliable account of the cavalry fight at Fairfax Court House, Virginia, is from the New York Tribune of Sunday ; The account of the Fairfax Court House affair, which was sent you this morning, was necessarily less complete and accurate than the following statement, which is derived from Lieut. Col. Burger of the New York Fifth, and confirmed in all essential particulars by two of the dragoons who were in the fray, and who brought the prisoners to town this noon. Lieut. Tompkins and Second Lieut. Gordon had with them dragoons, fifty-two in number, of company B, 2d U, S. Cavalry, two men of

the New York Fifth, and three officers, Adjutant Frank, Quartermaster Fearing, and Assistant 'Quartermaster Cury, making fifty-nine men. These members of the staff were attracted by the probability of reconnoitering a little further than usual, with a view of seeing the number of enemy at Fairfax. The party left camp at 11 J o'clock, surprised the picket guard four miles this side, shot one, and the other galloped toward the village filing and giving the alarm. At daybreak they reached the town, sounded a charge nnd galloped through the principal street under a heavy fire from the City Hall, Post Office, private houses, behind fences, from the sidewalk and street not from citizens, but from soldiers in uniform, some on foot, some mounted, On this charge five mounted men were taken prisoners one with Prince William County Cavalry on his cap. They were seized by the neck and swept on with the troops. One man cried "Halt." "Wait a bit," remarked Lieut. Tompkins, and shot him. The dawn had hardly broken, so the aim was not sure, but whenever they saw a flash from a , window, five or six answered it. Most of the rebels that were killed were in the street. Some ran in front, turning to fire on the Dragoons, and others closed in behind after their passing. . At the end of the street Lieut. Tompkins turned, and the troops holding their prisoners in an iron grasp, charged again through the whole length of the village, wheeled a third time and charged from end to end, but observing a piece of artillery coming from a side alley in front of the City Hall, they judged it prudent not to try a fourth time, and so rode on, making a detour of ten miles, and reached the camp by eight o'clock, having ridden forty-four miles. Besides the five prisoners, they brought five or six horses. Three Dragoons were missing and are pretty certainly killed. Four are wounded, one having a sabre cut in the face and a ball in

the Stomach. Assistant Quartermaster Cary of the fifth, slightly vaounded in the foot. The wounded ate now under the care of Drs. Hasse and Roosa of the 5th. The number of the enemy killed is uncertain; estimates vary from twenty to fifty. The wounded are very numerous. Lieut. Thompkins is sure he killed two. The trumpeter, only fifteen years old, killed two, and one dragoon thinks lie finished four or five; one (a prisoner," trying to get away,) was shot through Ihe belt. Lieut. Tompkins had two horses shot under him, and Gordon one, Before a fresh horse could bo found, they cut right nnd left on foot. The force in the town is estimated nt from 1,000 to 1,500. There is certainly a battalion of infantry, a squadron of cavalry, and some artillery; but they were afraid to form and meet in battle 65 men. They evidently prefer the Baltimore method. The dragoons returned lo camp looking as if they had been through a four week's campaign. Some had their clothes half torn off, and all were covered deep with dust. Two companies of the X. Y. 5ih could have supported the dragoons had they had wagons. They arc full in the belief sufficient that by deploying and driving the soldiers from the houses they might have taken the town. Tompkins is the same whose exploit in the capture of n Secession picket was related the other day. He never returns from a night's scouting without two or three prisoners. The five prisoners arrested last night were taken to the Navy-Yard this afternoon, and placed on board the Pnwhatan, where, in company with Capt. Bate's disconsolate cavalry, they will have an opportunity of ruminating upon political questions. With one exception they nre a miserable looking squad, their uniforms beirrg of gray horse-blanket material, their cheeks hollow and their eves sunken.

The Government Loan. Washington, May 27, 1861. The Treasury Department, immediately after the opening of the proposals on Saturday, commenced informing the successful bidders of the result. The Secretary accepted all for the bonds placed at 85 and upwards, and awarded the remainder to the bidders for the treasury notes at or above par. There were awarded of the bonds 56,753,000, and of the Treasury notes 2.2M.OOO. I learn from Secretary Chase that the amount offerd for bonds was $7,450,750. The amount declined. 13l,00O. The amount wrded in bonds, $7,319,750. The amount awarded in Treasury notes, 1 1.674,250. Total. $8,994,000.