Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 February 1862 — Page 1

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n "HERE LEI THE PRESS THE PEOPLED RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNA WED BT INFLUENCE! AND UHBOUGHT BY GAIN. VOLUME 3 NEW SERIES. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, FEBRUAEY 6, 1862. NUMBER 2 WHOLE No. IOC. ran

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INDim DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. V hebe as. The Democratic party having, from the date of its organization, been "in favor of the "maintenance of the Union und the preservation of institution, and seeing iu the present cor.difthe country the deplorable effects of a e from its time honored and conservative .9, and the triumph of sectionalism ; and believing that the Union and the Constitu n be preserved alone by the restoration of trty to power, we invite all the Union men hout the land to unite with us in sustaining organization and carrying out its principles, vrffore. Rtsolrrd, 1. That we reaffirm and endorse the Twlitiral nrincinh'S that from time to timn lirtvn

brcn put forth by the National Conventions of 2 That we are unalterably attached to the Constitution, by which the Union of these Slites wad formed and established : and that a faithful observance of its principles can alone continue the eiistenee of the Union, and the permanent happiness of the people. 3. That the present civil war has mainly remilted from the long continued, unwise, and fanttical agitation, in the North, of the question of loraetic s'avery, the conseque nt organization of pcographical party, guided by the sctinol platforms adopted at nuHalo, Pittsfmrgh, Philadelphia, nd Chicago, and the development thcrt-hy of ectional hate and jealousv, producing (a5 had long been foreseen and predicted by us) its counterpart in the South of secession, disunion, and armed resistance to the General Government, and terminating in a bloody strife between those who should ha been forever bound together by fraternal bonds, thu bringing upon the winde country a calamity which we are now to meet as loyal citizens, striving for the adoption of that mode of rettlement best calculated to again restore union aod harmony. 4. That in rejecting all propositions likely to result in a satisfactory adjustment of the matters In dispute between the North and the South, and eipecially those measures which would bave secured the border slave States to the Union, and a harty co-operation on their part in all constitutional and legal measures to procure a return of the more Southern States to their allegiance, the Republican party assumed a fearful responsibility, and acted in total disregaid of the best interests of the whole country. 5. That if the party in power had shown the same desire to settle, by amicable adjustment, our internal dissensions before hostilities had actually commenced, that the Administration has recently fihihited to avoid a war with our a it nt enemy. Great Britain, we confidently believe tat peace and harmony would now reign throughout all our border. . That the maintenance of the Union upon the principles of the Federal Constitution should "b- line controlling object ol all who profe loyalty m the Government and in our judgment this ptrpo? can only be accomplished, by the ascendency of a Union partv in the Southern States, WbicÜ shall, by a counter revolution, displtre thoe who control and direci the present rebellion. That no e f"rt to create or sustain such a party can be TK" cefiil which is not bnsvd ipn a definite pet tlement of the questions at issue between the two sections; and we therefore demand that some such settlement be made by additional eonstitnt'onol guaranty, either initiated by act of Congress or through the medium of a National Convention. 7. That the Republican party has fully demonstrated its inability to conduct the Government through its present diilieultics. H. Iliat w are utten v Orinoco to nre utrrnr ophoeti tn tli twin ces-ion, as inimical to the Constitution and that ,' freemen, as thev value the boon of mil lil..ifv ! and the peace of the countrv. .h-mld frown in.limntlr ii;mmi them. I- That in th4 national emerjeney the Demoerae, of Indiana, bmi-liing all f-elwi' of passion and resentment, will recollect r..i!y tlie:r duty to th" wltohi country; that th"n war hnM not be waed in the irit of conquest or subjugition. nr for the purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or in-tit.tions of the States, i.nt to tiefend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality aud rights of the several States uitiiapaed; and that as soon as these objects are ace mplUhed tho war ought to cease. 10. That we will sustain, with all our energies, a war f r '.he maintenance of the Condition, and of the integrity of the Union unter tht Cnnttitntfan; but we ar oppose.1 to a war for the emaneb-ation .f the negroes, or tho subjugation of the Southern Stiles. 11. That the purposes avowed an 1 advoeated by the Northern dnunionists, to liberate and arm the negro slave, is a digraee to the rige. eah-u! ate.J to retard t'.o surpre-sion of the rebellion and meets our un jualitred condemnation. 12. That die total direerd of th? writ of haheas corpm by the autho;ities over ih, an 1 the Fvizure and in.pii-onmet.t of the ritfz' i:s of lojjil States where tl e judiei in i in full operation, without warrantor law an 1 without :isiniii anv ca.ise or gnin0' to t e j.irty arr. sted anortu" nity ofdefet.se, are iiagrant iol ition- of tlie ("on Ht'tuti.m and nio-'t aUrming a-H of usurpation of j- r, whien diou'.d receive the sttn rebuke ff every lover of his eo intry and of every man who prizes the jh -irity ai.i: blessings o life, liberty and pro.Tty. l.'b That the liber'y of peeeli and of the r.ress are iruararite-d to the ;.. o;.5i ,v the f..t.. f .t. and non- but a usui ;-r w..uMdi priie them of these j riiW ; they are iue.-timab!e to the eitien a,,d C . . 1 ... ' iorni.it.ie iu ijrin:s oinv. Aiel the attempt wi leh ha-e be, n mad.' sinee our nrrsent unfortui.'tc tru'ihles, to tnu.le ihe press und Müh free d4ruion. are t-iercUet of desMititr po er against hieb freedom revolts and whieh ran uot be tolerated without nmverting freemen into nUvei. 11. That the seizure of M.trfon nnl S!i.!rll,on a neutral vessel, on the bili eas, was ither in accord mce with international law, and legal; or else in violation of such law, and no lUVfal- Ifthf rnier, we lament that our tiation has been humiliated by their nurrender, under a thrtut ; if the lattcr.it was the lutT of the Administration at once to have disavowed the act of their officer, and instead of incarcerating the captive in Kort Warren, to have immeiliatelj revVired the wrongs by placing them, a far a practicable, in the Mmo condition in which that officer found them. In either event, the action of the Administration was vacillating and cowardly and degrading to the dignity of agreut nation 1.. That the action of the Republican party, as manife-ted in the partisan character of all apjiointmen's f.f the Administration to ciril office ; nnd. in bold "ng party caueusses by the Republican member of Cnnjrre for the purpose of impressing upon the legi-i iti ve action of that body the -cculiar iogina of that party, have demontrated that thV profession! of "sacrificing party platforms, and . 'ty organizations, upon the altar of their country," are but .-o many hypocritical and false pretense by which they hope to dupe the unwary into their support ; an 1 we warn all loyal persona, as they love their country, not to be deceived' thereby In, That th disclosure made by the invest! gating committee in Congrrg of the enormous frauds that hae stalke- into the army and nivy departments, impüc ag the. heads of those de ptrtmmU in a cc -oce at, if not an actual prtici ration in stem of corruption, and in hiclj our brave soldiers have been defrauded of their proper pupplbs, an 1 our (Government threat neil will bankruptcy, dem an Is a thorough invetigitiort into all our expenditures, lth State anl National, and that a speedy and marked oxample be made of all suc h ''birds of prey' who, taking advantage of the necessity of our Country, Live ar..i iittenei upon public plureb r. t- Tht the meritorious conduct of the Indiant troops, in every battlefield where victory ha per'-hc.l upon the national banner, has filled the p-opi,. ,,f t,js State with the highest gratitude to her gallant ons, and that we send our beet wishes to ofücers and men, dispersed throughout the cuuntry, and the heartfelt greetings of every Demorrt fr their further brilliant achievnu nts in the c ruing eontets f.ir the maintenance of the Con kt;tutj.;u ajid t!,c I'uioji.

WRITTEN FOR THE rLYMOCTU WEEKLY DEMOCRAT. THE PIGEON ROOST.

BY J. T. L. Earlt in the fall of 18 . three students f B Academy were sitting together under the wide-spreading branches of an old Elm tree, when their conversation turned upon the far-famed Pigeon Roost. For every morning and evening, immense flocks of wild pigeons would pass over on their way to and from the roost, presenting a novel and quite a beautiful feature in the autumn landscapes, when one of them advanced the idea of making up a party for a 4 Pigeon Roost spree. They finally named a day, on which they would set out on their 'spree In the meantime Fred Hawly was as busy as a hen with one chicken, furbishing up all the old firearms that could be scraped together in and about tho village of B , whilst Harry Munroe and James Davis were purchasing an extra stock of ammunition, and soliciting three more of their comrades to participate in their 'spree.' When the time arrived, about an hour by sun the party were all assembled, consisting, besides those mentioned, of Phil Wad ley, Rob Bradman, Oren Ruter, and Seth Hampden, and a good supply of sandwiches, porter and segara. We pre sent jd a fancy group, as we started off all taut and in high feathers ; there was Fred Hawley jolting along on a high-trotting, raw-boned roan, puffing away vigorously at a segar, with a preposterous doublebarrelled ducking gun of inordinate length on hin shoulder, his head encased in an otter-skin cap, with a snout liks a coalscuttle, his chin buried in a red worsted comforter, and his lower spars stuck into high, stiff top boots the worst thine ho could wear to a pigeon roost. I wore a pair of buckskin moccasins coming up to my knees, and a smock frock of Kentucky jeans, as did most of us except Harry Munroe, who had been making visits that day, and came off in a hurrv with a pair of black doeskin dress pants, strapped down over patent leather pumps ; he had, however, donned a blue blanket cloth paletot, and was spanking off in find Style, on his high-mettled 'four year old that 1 .....i 1 1 1 n , .. . v 1 u uuiiurcfi uouars ior, arm wuich was really a gpler.did animal. Seth llatnjulen was ricochetting about 011 his charj.;r, now in the front, now in the rear, as that eccentric animal took a whim. He accompanied his maneuvers, some of which wore comically indescribable, with a running v!ly of imprecations and apostrophes to tho hard-mouthed jade, and j iked at tho briJle-bii until his arms mu8thave been in an unenviable plight ; vowing that he would hold on to the things which consisted of two panniers of thi edibles and drinkables aforesaid. Jim Davis was bouncing along on a broadbacked bay, and with hi natty, drab Mackintosh, nice jockey-cap buckled under his chin, his 'U'estly Kichardn in its list cover, strung at his back, and 'five center' in hi teeth, looked as finng as a sitting hen in a hay -stark. Jim always was the most corn lorla bio being I ever knew. Thil Wadley, howevor, was tho most unique specimen in the crowd. He was switching ahead on a duck-legged mule, his own lugs dangling nearly toihe ground, arid his elbows, and the broad brim of a worn-out l'anania, flapping up and down to the jolting of his steed, in a singularly graceful manner. Add to this desciiplion a brown jeans roundabout, an absurd corduroy vest, and a suipicious-colored pair of pants, ol unlnown material, a short Mexican esquipotte. and a cigar, and you havs his tout tntemhle, as the novelists say. What aro wo waiting for? asked Oren Kutor, as wo halted unJer tho high trees which surrounded the 'Dig Gate Wo are only waiting for Hub, who has gone back after some things which were forgotten replied Soth, giving Iii pony a jork to keep him from biting his neighbor's ears. What in the devil is that!' cried Fred Hawley, suddenly. What?' I asked, looking around. Are you casting any insinuations on my critter? inquired Phil, lajing hold ol mulo's ear, which he used generally in lieu of reins, as no ordinary bit produced any impression oti its mouth, 'Do you allude to my ass, sir?' No ; that," replied Fred, pointing to an object issuing out from the shadow of a clump of trees which seemed to mo to be an enorroui mushroom, moving briskly toward us on four lgs. Ohaist of T om O'Shaotor ! what can it bo?' cried Jim. Aw.ir.t the, witch quoth Phil, as his mule hied from il, so suddenly as nearly to unseat him and bang! a pull of smoke aros-3 from somowheroe about Phil, with a tremendous report, and tho next thing I saw Mulo, who appeared to be

Unding on his head in an inverted atti-

tuae, ana . nil went chucking through the air like a shell from catapult, taking Fred rlawley's coal-scuttle cap, in transitu, and finally landing in a mudholo in a position similar to that which his mule had previously assumed. Tho explosion startled Fred's gallant barb, who, rearing ap on his hind legs, executed a semisomersault forward, which shot his rider from the saddle, and deposited him atop of the prostrate Wadfoy, who was still floundering in the puddle, coming down on him with considerable vim, to judge from the squelching grunt which it elicit ed therefrom, aa Fred's 'noggin bolted in to Wadley s breadbasket, after a very unceremonious fashion. Meantime, Oren Ituter's sorrel was ma king demonstrations toward a similar eject ment, but he succeeded in quashing his proceedings. The last thing I saw of Seth, after the concussion, his charger, with switching tail and heels inverted, and Seth' panniers flapping up and down, like a wet shirt on a clothes line, was scooting across the lawn, until splash! into the brook they pitched, head over heels. The whole thing took place in the short est imaginable time, and meanwhile Jim Davis and I, who wera the only oi.es un disturbed by this comical catastrophe, weru lying back on our saddles in convul sions of laughter. It turned out that the peripatetic toadstool was Rob Bradman, on a young filly, with a ruealbag, to bring home the birds in, over his shoulders, and his head surmounted by a huge bundle of sheets and blackets for our camp bedding, the whole done out of pure devilment. The unusual appearance which this style of head dress presented, disturbed Mulo's ideas of propriety, caused him to shy, and in so doing. Phil's cigar was knocked out of his mouth; a park from it fell into his powdsrhorn, which from his usual negligene happened to be open, and blew it up. Fortunately for him it blew out the head pieco behind it was that which discommoded Fred's head gear and the force of the explosion taking a backward direction, he escaped unhurt. On a pott mortem examination, as Rob called it. it ,..t i . r,:... was lounu inai no uuoes vr ere uroken. r reu . . . . rnd 1'hil were extricated from the puddle; Mulo it Co., issued from their respective places, not much like lambs from tho washing it i9 true, but nevertheless in tclerablo plight. Tho panniers had been dropped without maning tho viands greatly, though much crashing of crockry had ensued. We soon repaired all damages, had a hearty laugh over the wholo frolic, and took a fresh start. It was sundown when wo debouched from the narrow road which rati through the dark, deep forest, into an old field, on the other side of which lay the roost,' in a den6e thicket 0! low trees, such as we havo in the barrens, and extending over about a thousand acres or more. Looking towards the horizon, a long, dark, serpentine object, winding through tho air on a level with it, attracted our gaze. Tho pigeons ! ' burst in exclamation from our lips. On they came, in one unbroken column of about fifty deep, and a hundred abreast, all moving as by one impulse, pouting in a dark, dense, waving line, creeping, writhing along the horizon, like a lasge snake, their flight accompanied by a low and awful roar, like the souad of a distant hurricane. Fred Hawley who had never been to the roost in his life, and never saw this long mysterious army of birds coming into camp' for the night, was of conrse astonished out of measure, and gave expression to it in his own peculiar aud emphatic way. The pigeons scour tho country during the day in foraging parties of twenty, fifty, or a hundred, in quest of acorns, j beechnuts, and other mast, on which they feed. Though scattered far and wide, somo of them rove more than a hundred miles off during the day, over the wholo face of the couutry; they all inetinclivoly direct their way towards the common roost, ing-placo as evening draws Bear. It is like the gathering of the clans straggling detachments, all winging their way towards the same point, fall in with each other and unite; their numbars aro constantly swelled by new accessions, until, they draw neat the roost, they constitute one val army, a disciplined army, too, for each bird follaw his file-leader, and there is no confusion or interruption. The dense, and al that distanco, solid looking mass, heaves and swell in airy billows all in unison, scarcely a bird leaving the ranks. Then the bold fifty abreast head of th column no straggling at random, ragged frontcommanded by its leader, I will lupposo, enters tho roost, thero is not a genornl break -up each man his own way: the advanclngcolumn takes a circuit along the outer edge of the rost. describes a circlo around its wholo extent, returns

(back, and then a smaller circle, and so on.

until the whole army coils itself up in a whorl, and then pours down like a water spout in the middle, deploys, droppicg down, however, from the moment that they enter the roost, until, by tho time the wholo is complete, the whole roost is one living, roaring multitude of birds. After a few moments pause to let our admiration and curiosity subsido, we continued across tho ' old held ' and entered the roost. Tho noise, which in tho distanco bad Bounded like a blended and suppressed roar, now dinned into our ears as wo pushed into a narrow path that led into the densely-tangled brushwood in ihe roost, like like tho deuse I never heard any thing liko it. Imagine Niagara Falls placed in the echoing chambers of the Mammoth Cavo, and seventy or eighty machine shops, wcrked by eteaia engines, at werk hard by it, and then conceive a thousand man firing into said cave at the same time with loud-shouting blunderbusses, and hallowing every mother's son of them at the top of their lungs, and you will get somo idea of what it was like. The blunderbusses and shooting man, by the way, were literal, for the roost was full of them. I say. Jack hallowed Fred in my ear, it sounds as if fifty thousand Juce-buo-s were playing tho jowsharp in the drums of my ears !' The air was so agitated by the flying hither and thither of crowds of birds, that it made your hair stand on end, and nearly mado you do so too. Nothing could be distinguished but the roar of wings, the chattering of millions of birds, with an occasional ck leek he-hc-ke, rising high out of the din from sheer dissonance. to be continued. The President and tho War. Plymouth, Ind Jan, 24. To the Editor of the Chicago Times : Tho extensive circulation acquired by your paper, with the positions it has assumed on the gigantic questions presented for tho consideration of tho American people, makes it imperative upon you to send out nothing but the expression of the soundest and most carefully matured P,nloni 1 ? 1 Its influence U great for Mod or ill, and at this juncture, when the great democratic party is raising its great leviathan proportions into view ouco more, nnd when the enemies of true social freedom are trembling at the sight, you aro going forth as one ol tho heralds of its movements, to tell the people that it is a leviathan not of flesh or selfishness to food on all that can fatten itself only, but a leviathan of embodied truti-princijlcs applicable, at nil tunes and in all places, to tho circumstances that gavo birth and belonged to each, and that will not apply to any other time or place. The propositions of its enemies (falsely called principles) aro applicable only to a timo or place, and then tho application is forced, false and time-serving. Tho priociplc8 advocated by tho democratic party claim to bo tho embodiment Of the ' rules of actiotl ' that nrnnArlr i--r'v spring into ex.stenco with and as a part cf political liberty, and by forco of which, alono, it can bo made progressive and per petual. Your present power is one of no mean proportions. Tho opinions tou advocate from day to day aro read by many thou sands nud the impressions left on tho minds of tho readers must bo extensively felt hereafter by tho party in the West, as the opinions formed by your readers aro manifested to their fellow-citizens, and al tho ballot-box. Tho monstrous, half-comprehended facts now staring us in tho face; the agonizing crises through which tho nation u now successively passing; tho future, with its terrible uncertainties; and the view presented by tho abilities and antecedents of those having control of ' the purse and the sword makes tho position of a leadding newspaper editor ono of grave responsibility, and too few of theso occupying that position comprehend it. I havo read your paper daily, wet from the press. It has circulated extensively in this vicinity,. Your couiss has boon closely watched and highly praised at times, and at others condemned, by democrats who have alwajs beon true to their faith and its works, and who aro competent guardains of the trust and hope to transmit it to their children. Hundreds of democrats have waited patiently for an explanatioo. to be mvJo by you of ono important matter, and I ham soen no allusion to it by you. In order to bo consistent, it is thought that you should allude to it in somo way. You have hold up the hands of the Preuidont frotn tho first. You have excused what 6eomed weak and applauded to tho echo overy movement that did not run parallel with abolitionism; but thero is ono thing you havo seemed to avoid seemed to shun purposely, and at a risk of Icing chargod with inconsistency aud time-serving. So flu-nt a writer, to

able a condenser (if I may use the word) of matters and conclusions, is able to avoid any grounds for such a charge. If ever there was a timo when the principles on which this nation sprang into being (and by which it must be preserved, if at all) should be fully and practically presented to the people in strong contrast with the courso advocated by ths opponents of those principles, it is now; now in the face of battle; in tho prospect of grievous taxation; in the presence of financial bankruptcy; in the glare of the firey furnace that abolition and secession have seven times heated. Mr. Lincoln entered upon his duties as Executivo with an oath to support the constitution and exeuate tho laws, and a confirmed declared opinion that this Union cuuld not exist with part of the States free and the remainder slave States. That it must be all slave or all free. That a divided houss must fall. That he did not expect the house to fall, but that he did expect it would cease to be divided. This was the theory of the union on which he was elected. He called to the highest office in his gift a life long abolitionist Wm. H. Seward and afterwards permitted him to accredit a niggr to Europe as a citizen of ihe United Slates under the national seal. Then came as his next highest aids, Cameron and Chase more ultra than the other. He sent to Canada. England, France, Austria, Prussia, Russia and Spain, avowed abolitionists, the conduct of whosoa whole lives had tended to the destruction of fraternal feelings between tho North and South. He commissioned the infamous I I'm ton Rowan Helper, and gave a high military position to the abolition desperado Jim Lane. When Fremont began forcible emancipation, and refused to obey orders, and so conducted himself that his removal was a military necessity, he was simply superceded, and is retained in commission, in inglorious ease, ' without inquiry or trial, and gets some 7,500 per annum from the public treasury, which the people must pay back in taxes amounting from tea to fifteen per cent. When Cameron was said to havo thwarted him and run counter to his

evory wish, when they came to open rup ture, when Cameron resigned, and under circumstances which you say wero comptU6cry and amounted to a removal, Mr. Lincoln immediately sends him to repre sent us at St. Petersburg ftho mesi o friendly of foreign powers, and our most important foreign missior), and recalls Mr. Clay a life-long avowed abolitionist to tako a high military command. Now, sir, while McClellan, and Stanton, and a few Generals aro not abolitionists, although appointed by Mr. Lincoln (and can be superceded at any moment), will you 6how tho consistancy in keeping this nation misrepresented at every important foreign court by a rabid abolitionist, if the President is not himself ono, and determined to keep the most powerful elements of his position under abolition guardianship and guiJance ? It is a well known fact that thero is not tho talent or acquirements in any man or set of men in the republican party to organize and discipline army or command it in the field, and the appointment of men of other political faith was a necessity. If Mr. Lincoln ' ha9 cut himself loose from tho radicals' if he hai changed his views on this great question '(abolition) if ho ' begins to recogniza that the doctrines that have held tin natior so long together, and made the nation great,' are correct and healthy doctrines, as you assert he has, why does he not clean the Augean stables ' of their abolition filth, and show to the world that he is ' for the constitution with all its compromises '? Again : If the secessionists are not entitled to tho rights of belligercati if they are to be treated as persons in ' an insurrection ' if poicer and force do not settlo the question as to belligerency if an upruing of millions of pooplo, who can and do send into the field an army of nearly half a million of men, with all the material belonging (o such an army, is a simple insurrection, tell us how the government is going to constitutionally pass and enforce a confiscation bill, or do any other act necessary aud proper to be done in time of war, ' according to the laics of nations and the usages 0 war'? Were it not for its absurdity, would not the position bo a terriblo ono ? Eilhtr there can be no ' usages of war ' extended to the southern people, or else the southern uprising is not an insurrection. Il must bo treated unconditonally, or e!so it is not an insurrection. If it is kehkluon, then the fact of force settles tho question of belligerency. If the rebel have the Jorce, then they are ' an enemy at war with us (no matter how it originated), and must bo treated fis othor enemies, according to the usages of war If we are successful, wo indemnify ourselves according to ' tho usages of war and in addition punish such of the olTenders as we

think proper, and restore tho supremacy of the civil law over the rebelling people. In all that is done with southern men or property, they and it must be dealt with by the usages of war and the military must execute the law. The civil law as to the belligerent is suspended until we can again have control and are able to declare peace restored to any one or more of the rebelling States. Erg land so treated us and Ireland and India in times of rebellion. Russia so treated Circassia. France so treated Algiers. And neither Nena Sahib, Abd el Kader, Schamyl, nor any other leader was put to death when taken, aud prisoners were exchanged, and all olher usages of war adhered to as a great thing. Wo profess to be, and no doubt are, more humane than they, and fully as much enlightened. Now will you explain how this uprising is to be treated as an insurrection, and as a great rebellion, at lb same time, and by ignoring ihem either as rsbels or belligerents, by giving them their rights under the constitution, claiming they are in the Union, and at the simo- time passing and enforcing laws depriving them of those rights, and applicable only to belligerents at war with this nation, yet ignoring the laws of nations and the usages of war '? re is a succession of paradoxes utterly incomprehensible, and yet it is the very position assumed by the party in pewer. Now will you show that we ought to uphold and support the administration in carrying out these propositions? We want to be right. Wo must be right ; and when we get ri?ht we must stand to and die for that right. If Mr. Lincoln really wishes to restore the Uofon under the constitution, I will pray and work ior him zealously; If he does not, he should be utterly overwhelmed by the terrible condemnation of an outraged o public opinion. His position is a trying one. If wanting and intending to do light, he should have the sympathy and aid of every heart aud voice; but if he is seekiug to administer this government and put down this lebellion by means of carrying into practice abolition proposkions

or doctrines, or treating this rebellion as a mere insurrection, tho sooner ho feels tho withdrawal of tho popular support, the sonor will tho poopla aea tl culiniuatiim of tho civil influences how prostrating them and sapping tho very foundations of their political and 6ocial independence. Democrats hero want the government and the Union as it was made. They want to see it restored and maintained; and they want no change in the constitution, (unless it be, 1, an express guaranty to every State of perfect equality in the Union ; 2, express prohibition of Congressional intereferenco with slavery ; 3. express prohibition of negro citizenship), for it cannot be battered for for many years to come. The lime is rapidly passing when its restoration is possible. The golden moment will soon bo gono forever, and with its passage comes success or despair ,o us. If Mr. Lincoln is trying to seize that success, God speed him. I dread to think that tho facts I have asked you to explain may bo inimical to such a conclusion. Heaven grant that such a view may be a false one. Yours, INQUIRER. Continental Honey. For the purpose of providing pecuniary means to carry on the Revolutionary war, tho Continental Congress issued bill in different sizes, the faith of the Confederate Colonies pledged for their redemption. The first issue was June 22, 1775, of 82,000,000, and from time to time other emissions were authorized, till the beginning of 1780, when 8200,000,000 had been issued, and none redeemed. Mr. Lossing, in his Field -Book of tho Revolution, gives a scalo of the depreciation of tho Continental money. In January, 1777, tho paper currency was at ti per cent: discount; In July it was at 25 per cent, discount, and before the end of the year, three dollars in paper would not command a silver dollar. In 1778 the paper currency continued to depreciate, so that in April four dollars in paper were not equal to ono in coin. In September, the ratio was as five to one, and at the close of the year was sis and a half to one. In 1779 the depreciation rapidly continued. In February, the ratio was eight dollars and a half of paper to one of silver. In May it was twelve to one ; in September eighteen to one; and before the close of tho year a paper dollar was only worth four cents. In March, 1700, a paper dollar was worth threo cents; in May, it was worth two cents; and in December seventy-four dollars in paper was worth ono dollar in silver. At thu point the historian stops. Tho watliko feeling is running very high at Halifax, and throughout the Province.

Jlr. Seward' Xoveltic. The spectacle of an army avowedly hostile in its mission passing to its destination over soil it proposed to invade at tho first blast of war, would bo something novel in the history of States. Imain Russia asking permission of England tJ make Malta a depot for its navy during the Crimean war, or Franco transporting its troops for the Italian campaign by way of Salzburg, Vienna and Trieste! Eve. Journal. Mr. Seward is the fruitful inventor of novelties. Tho "irrepretsiblo conflict," which proclaimed that free and slave states could not livo together iu tho same union, was a novelty of Mr. SewarJL Na statesman, from the day of Washington down, ever dreamed of it. His speech to the Duke of Newcastle, "we must insult yon," wasn novelty. His threats against Canada were novelties. His promise to the South Carolina Commissioners, that Fort Sumter should b peaceably evacuated, was a novelty: and its falsification was another. II U prophecy, that the war would be over in thirty days was a novelty; as have been all his prophecies since. The fulfillment of ono of them would b an agreeable novelty. His invention of tho idea of blockading one's own ports was a novelty in international law; and his treatment of rebels as foreign enemies, while denying them belligerent rights, was another. His letter to Gov. Hicks, sneering at tha Representatives of monarchies, was a novelty ia diplomacy. His circular to tho Governors of the 8tatesr on the subject of frontier defaces, was another noveltv. m His declaration, that the recognition of tho South by European powers would be resented by U9 by a general war upon all Europe, is a novelty in doctrine, and would be a greater one in practice. His arrest of loyal citizens, in peaceful states, by telegraph, b a novelty, which it is to bo hoped m3y return to plagua the inventor. His invention of a passport system, without law, which annoys lojal citizen ar.d gives fro Ecopy tj traitors, is another novelty. His long reply to a demand never made.

in tho Slidell and Mason case, and his dexterous proving our right to seizo aud our duty to surrender those envoys, id a novelty also, Hii countenance of universal corruption, at a timo of great national necessity, is a novelty in the minds of all patriots. His selection of 6uch diplomatic representatives as Gidding9, Helper, Burlingame t Co., is another novelty. His proposed surrender of tho light of privateering, without an equivalent, is a novelty. His abandonment of the Monroo doctrine is a novelty. His irritating dispatches to foreign courts are novelties in manner and temper and substance. His invitation to England to snd her troops to Canada, through Maine, is a maniacal novelty. Finally, Mr. Seward, acting as a statesman, and managing tho affairs of a great nation, in a great crisis, is a novelty that tho world has never yet seen tha liko of, and probably never will again. Reviewing Mr. Sewaid's Uboth for the last year, we doubt if Dumas, or Walter Scott, or the iucxhiustible Sylvarms Cob!). was half as prolific a novelist as Wm. II, Seward. Telegraphic Experiment. It is a matter of curiosity as to how quick tolegraph o communication may be made. Expeperience has shown that it it an instantaneous process. A short time since an experiment was tried to illustrate the point It was agreed that a telegrapher at New York city, in communication with Chicago, Illinois, should write the letter S which is done by making three dots and that a Chicago telegrapher should instantly, on hearing the dots, respond by making the same signs. The plan was carried out snccessfully, and the piper of the register at New York showed that the dots made by both operators stood eo nearly together that it was impossible to writs a single dot between the characters representing the two S.S. The response from Chicago was recorded a9 quickly after the, signal from New York as it was posiibls tor the Chicago telegraphers to make it. You are from the country, are you not, sit?' said a dandy clerk, in a btok store to ä handsomely dressed Quakor, who had given hin some trouble. Yes 'Well, hero is an essay on the resting of calves That taid Aminadab, as ho turned to leave tho store, 'thee had better prfseiit to thv mother.