Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 9, Number 7, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 September 1863 — Page 1

Tr DEM OCR i t - EE RE LET THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN-, UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBOUGHT BY GAIN. VOLUME 0. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863. NUMBER i WHOLE No. 423

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THE A3ICUICAX WAR.

Ilupid Consumption of Men. From tie Londen Times. Few persons anticipated two years ago that the consumption of men would create an earlier difficulty in tlie American war than the eon n nption of money. Such, however, is the fact. The Federal States have incurred without a murmur a deht of which the annual charge is little less than that of the puUie deht of Great Britain. They are living upon a paper currency, and it they have not as vet paU many taxes they have at any rate consented to the imposition of heavy taxation. But the financial aspect of the war appears to have given them very little concern. Mr. Chase manages the money market with great dexterity, and as there is no difficulty at present there is hut slight anxiety for the future. Far different, however, is the case with the supply of men. So prodigal lias been the expenditure of life on both sides, hut especially on the part of the North, that the must desperate expedients are now required for the reinforcement of the armies in the lit Volunteering. Mr. Lineoln himself tells us. is -palpably exhausted;" recruits are no longer tobe purchased by bounties, and at length a nation, which prided itself, above all things, on the military organ-. .at ion of its willing and independent citizens, finds itself reduced, in the third yar of the war. to the necessity of a conscription. So urgent, in f;et. are the nteds of the State, that the 1 'resident cannot wait till the arrang "-men's to? the draft are properly comph-ted. The Goycrnor.of New York writes to him. v.'itn a v. statement demonstrating the unfair ami j partial operation of the proj.--ted b-vy in j certain districts under hi-: authority. Mr. j Lincoln cannot deny th:it the figures show homcthiug wrong ; but he answers that he

has no time to rectify them. He will i!',),,., ,. thanked his friends and fel-

tbe best tleit he can by and by. but at the present the men mu-t be pressed, enrolled and sent off to the depots without delay. He does not pretend to dcr.v that even the Ira ft itst If may be of questionable legality; but that point, too. mibt be lefi for future Ie-iion. At this moment he tnu.-t have the men.

beet: so true to h":u throogli life. Bcturn-s.-ed nere-sitb-sof th-- Fede-;;,,,, j (.,.(... n,r..;:i- he -rueful for

Thee colli' rals contrast somewhat strangely with tin boast -i of inexh.au -lib: resources in who u j thev have indulged, but we cannot be h".v have indulged. .ut we cannot he sur-' pr.sed at the resists. .ever. we presum-. in the history of civilized nation--, were men so rapidly co);: -;.ied as in this civil war. Volunteering 'mi exhausted promaturely. Mr. Lim- ui M-alis since the spring of lSC.I h.,ve ceitainly exceeleil l.t'W.I'OO men. He began with Tö.llOj he ro.-e presently to 7'b(i0. and at very short intervals the demands were repeated. I'nless. indeed, we assume that one man out of every two in the Federal armies has been killed or wounded, we must raise the agTeirate amount of their levies to numbers fven greater than we have suggested ; for it seems to be beyond juestion that half a million men. at least, have been placed hurt ' rt, iiil't since the war began. In the intercepted correspondence of the Confederates which was brought before our government by the Federal authorities themselves, the losses at the North are estimated at :;l!.000. lint this was twelve mouths ago. j,nd all the carnage of Chanellorville und Gettysburg, t say nothing of the incessant drain at Yick.-burg. Fort Hudson, Charleston, and many other poitdsr has to be brought to account. Less than "00.000 the total can hardly be. and that, indeed. Was the computation of our c orrespondent in the South some six months ago. Thf losse. o' the (Vi fed era toy, even at that K:riod. were supposed to be 1!0MM)0, so that 700,000 would be. the lowest estimate of the whole consumption. To form an adequate idea of the prodigious drain, let the reader remember our own position in the Crimean war. The comparison will Ve 11 the rasier because the available resources of the two countries are exactly alike. 'Die Cnitcd Kingdom contains a population as nearly as possible equivalent to that of the northern and outheru States put together hi ?cks included so that we had an good a stock to draw upon as the American have had. Our army before SVbastapol was never at any one lime, "0.000 Mr ng. and yet the 27.000 casualties in that force were enough to throw Fngland into mourning", and to reduce the standard of the army for muh time. What would have been the case if ten ur twenty times that force had been b; the field ? What would have happened if 7'',000 Ilritish oldie rs had been killed or wounded in two years of war ? At this rate of consumption the American war will soon literally become what some of ibs promoters desire a war of extermination. That phrase is a mere hyperbole in European stories, but it will express only the bare truth in America. Frcfcidcnt Lincoln alleges as his reason for preeipitatb:.- the draft in New York, that rre?Me-u, IMvis L, "driving every ab!e-

bodied man he can meet into his ranks," and it is now reported that the South, like the North, is enrolling and arming negroes. We cannot wonder at the resolution, however much we may lament it. At the be-

inning of the war the whole white population of the southern States could hardly have contained more than ,000,000 or 1,"JOO.000 men of fighting age. How many deductions must be made even from those figures before an effective total can be reached we cannot say, and yet the South must have already raised at least äOO.OOO or ('00.000 men, of whom 200.000 have fallen. The negroes in the South arc just ifboat hall as numerous as the whites, so that this expedient will add :"0 per cent, to their resources. It shows, however, the desperate nature of the struggle when we see such a measure adopted. Nothing but the verv sternest resolution and direst need would have driven the Confederates to this extremity. They are as ready as the Federals to accept the "bitter end." The North vows that if the South will not submit, every southerner shall be slain ; the South answers that rather than submit every southerner will die. flovcriior Seymour at Slome--A ISrief mid Merlin? Siee ! Serenade lv netnrnins Soldiers. Governor Seynn ur is on a brief visit to his Imme at Ftica. On Monday the people turned out .i imtssc to welcome their fellow-citizen and neighbor, the noble Chief Magistrate of the Empire State. They gathered in the Squire opposite Bang's Hotel, whore the Governor had rooms. Music and bonfires animated the scene. Tu response to the popular desire. ;Vl.rnnr Seymour appeared ami made a iirit.p :,,l.l r ss. which is brieily sketched in ,u. observer as follows : The Governor, who is in the enjoy ment of !i:ot excelh-nt health, spoke very low-citizens nio.-t sincerely lbr this expression of their good will and personal friendship. Many mouths had clip.-ed since he had the pleasure of being among them. When w.rn by the cares and responsibilities of oit'u-e. it wa pleasant to turn home- ' ward ami n;ug;o wi.n menus woo nau 'ithe c u'dial greet intrs of political opponents I - - - a . n IVleiJ T! ice are times in vI.:(.h llK.nV 1t ,1 tl-l prejudices and pas- , r;;i(..s ;irc i0.ltL.,? iVlt u. W;IS ul,I11(,t mado i) er0A,, ti,;s j-.K.t u,ne receiving so many ,,.,.,,;:,, iVind.iip from men of all shades , (f j,,,;! j.j,. ; this .he had abn-st j saitp h. u.,ivt. uv;u h is tni0 ti:it 5 Li, .'. . J..,r:, ff,:17f ....;.; l..o l,o could sav now that when they were spoken of liiui. it was a .-ouree of gratitude that his opponents did not forget him. Laughter. He returned when those before h'iin wore: affected by a juestion of dee) interest to them all he alluded to the conscription act. lie. should not mar the occasion by saying anything to wound any present who differed from him in political opinion. He counseled that however much they might differ as to the propriety or the justice of enactments, they should never allow their prejudices or passions to carry them be-1 yond the point where they would be obe-1 heilt to the laws. I hey must rememher that when law was violated their best ini terests were violated. Law protects us al'wavs it is that which gives us secnlity in , .f t- . ... i, .,!....,..., ,1 I : t - - - j we should always manifest respect for it. If the conscription bears harshly on the people, let us alleviate the hardships thrust upon them, not by violence, but by kindly acts and mutual aid. Expressing his gratificatio that the Supervisors in Oneidaj county were about meeting to consider the subject of aiding those on whom the draft falls heavily, he said that he was M't j sure that, whatever might be men's differ-, ences about the conscription law, they would all unite in such benitbent measures as would save from suffering those who could illy bear the burden laid upon them. There were other things to which he would wish to allude, but he could not allude to jarring questions. He would tell them this again let them not put themselves in opposititioii to law. '1 here are remedies at theballot-hox and in the courts. Evfxy officer, legislative, executive or judicial, is subject to the laws, and sometime, sooner or later, to the decision of the polls. 'J he laws and Constitution are ample to right all wrongs, and there is no remedy for justice in acts of disorder; disorder and rovolution secure no rights, but create new wrongs:. He alluded to this subject because parly passions ran higher than before, and we are in danger in losing faith in our institutions. We must look to the judiciary and to the ballot box, and soon all will be well. The clouds over our country are dark ; sufferim'S press heavy upon us; many have dark forebodings as they look down about them and begin to study the future; but

the Governor said it was not so with him.

Applause. e had thought painfully and carefully upon the perils of the country, and he was now confident that we would be once more a united and happy people, with a restored Union, with the rights of States respected, and that in a little time American homes would be again saved from invasion and outrage. Cheers. But he had not intended to say so much. He a train thanked his fellow-citizcr.s for their many acts of personal kindness for this compliment. He invoked the blessings of Almighty God upon them, and asked Him that we might be relieved from the disasters now pressing upon the country. ; that peace might be restored to our belov ed land, and that it should speedily regain all its glory and prosperity. Governor Scvmour then retired, and the la rue assembly after repeatou cheering, dispersed. Later in the evening, the 17th Albany iv imcntof N. Y. Vols., on their return home from service in the bloody fields of the Southwest, headed by a deputation of Albanians who had come up to meet them, accompanied by Schriber's Albany Hand, serenaded the Governor and greeted him with intense enthusiasm. The compliment was handsomely acknowledged. I nieresl in? Experiment. We believe it is one of Mrs. Southworth's stories in the New York Ledger, that represents a murderer as being convicted by a photograph of his victim's eyes upon the retina of which was pi turcd the features of the assassin. Similar experiments, we are informed, have been made in France with great success, and mysterious iimrders unraveled through the instrumentality of Daguerre's wonderful art. Notwithstanding we had heard of these strange things, we were still under the impression that "dead men tell no tales," until a recent experiment has shaken our faith and almost convinced us that dead men may yet speak. On Saturday forenoon, Mr. Adams, a photographist of this city, at the solicitation of some gentlemen who had read of similar experiments in France, took his risii-wmcnt and visited the scene of the late murder in German township. This was some thirty hours after the murdered iiian had breathed his last. There was a great deal of dust flying, and a great crowd collected, which materially interfered with the Mieccvs of the experiment, but notwithstanding these unfavorable circumstances. Mr. Adams succeei'e 1 in taking a toler;.bly fair negative. Upon this he has beet; experimenting, and yesterday we were called on to witness tiie result of his experiment. lie had taken an ambmtype picture of j the eve of the deceased, and then rubbing out everything but a single object, apparently in the center of the eye, this- was placed under an ordinary magnifyingglass. At the first glance this appeared blurred and indistinct, but, getting the proper focus, the outlines of a human face were at once distinguishable. The image was apparently the face of a man with unusually prominent cheek bones, long nose, and rathvr Wl(1 f;,rt.icaip A pj., 1110!lst.lciu. was lil;;nly se(.n? .1 1, the direction of the eyes, which seemed to be look in" at some object sideways. One of the eyes was as plainly to be seen as the eyes in a common ambrotj-pe or fenotypc. Some who examined the image thought that the man of which it seemed to be a resemblance had a Roman nose, and also had on :t cap. Mr. Adams is continuing his experi ments, hut whether he will succeed in ma clearer develot.ements remains to he seen. His labors tlnw far are abun dantly rewarded by the success which ha. attended his efforts, as it seems to us he ,as demonstrated that an object was i.ictu red upon the eye of Mr. llerke at the time of his death, and that object was a human face. iwnmtu'He .hmrmil. GoRx Stalks. A traveling agent, in passing a farm saw a boy at work in a cornfield by the roadside, and being of a inquisitive turn of mind, stopped his horse ami thus addressed the youth: 'My son, whose farm is this?' 'lead's,' was the laconic reply. 'Does you father raise stock?' 'Yes, lots of 'em.' 'What kind of stock?' 'Comstocks, mostly,' was the answer, as he proceeded to hoe a hill o' the article, and Um htranger went on his way musing. 'Will you take some grapes, monsieur?" asked a gentleman of a Frenchman. "No sare," he replied; -I don't swallow my wine in ze shape of a pill." Nobody likes lo be nobody; but everybody is pleased to think himself somebody. And everybody is somebody; but when anybody thinks himself to be somebody, he generally thinks everybody else to be nobody.

I$y VYliom tlic Esfgs were Enid.

It is a favorite term of reproach by the Abolition newspapers against Charleston that it was the '-nest of the rebellion." If it be true that it was the nest where the eggs of rebellion were hatched, it is not true that it was the nest where the etrgs of rebellion were laid. That nest was situated considerably to the northeast of Charleston, in the region popularly known as New 1 J 1 1 Itl I I t lll V V'l 1 VMtlllWIl U L I V lclLl in it as long age as 1812, by men assembled at Hartford, in the State of Connecticut, whose conclave is historical by the name of the "Hartford Convention." Other eggs were laid in 1844, when the Legislature of Massachusetts resolved that ..e ,,ö.,u O lli 1- -i"-k the annexation of Texas would be cause of dissolution of the Union. A great many other eggs have since been laid in it by a great many men and a great many public meetings, both in and out of New England. Here is one laid by Wendell Phillips : 'The Constitution of our fathers was a mistake. Tear it in pieces and make a better. Don't say the machine is out of order; it is in order; it does what its frame rs intended protect slavery: Our claim is disunion, breaking up of the States! I have shown you that our work cannot be done under our institutions.' Here is one laid by Win. Lloyd Garrison : 'This Union is a lie ! The American Union is an imposition, a covenant with death and an agreement with hell! I am for its overthrow ! Lp with the flag of disunion, that we may have a free and glorious Uepublic of our own ; and when the hour shall come, the hour wi 1 have arrived that shall witness the overthrow of avcrv. Here is another laid by Garrison : 'No act of ours do we regard with more conscientious approval or higher satisfaction, none do we submit more confidently to the tribunal of Heaven and the moral verdict of mankind, than when several years ago. (n the 4th of July, in the presence of a great assembly, we committed to the flames the Constitution of the United States." Here is one iaid by Abraham Lincoln, the -a me who is now President cd' the United States : Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have a right to rise no and shake off the existing Government, and form a new one that suits them better. Nor is the right confined to classes where the people of an existing Government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, putting down a minority intermingled with or near about them, who may oppose them." Here is another laid by Lincoln : ' I believe this Government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free." Here arc three laid by the American Anti-Slavery Society at one of its anniversary meetings : JitS'tfvcif, That secession from the United States Government is the duty of every Abolitionist, since no one can take office, or deposit his vote under its Constitution, without violating his anti-slavery principles, and rendering himself an abettor to the slaveholder in his sin. Hisov'if, That years of warfare against the slave power have convinced us that union rivets the chain of the slave that the only exodus of the .slave to freed on., unless it be one of blood, must be over the remains of the present American Church, and the grave of the present Union. AVsorW, That the Abolitionists of this country shall make it one of their primary objects of this agitation to dissolve the American Union' Here is one laid by the present Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury Francis E. Spinner during the Fremont campaign : k' Should this (the election of Fremont) fail, no true man would be any iongcr sale here from the assaults of the arrogant slave oligarchy, who then would rule with an iron hand. For the free North Would be lelt the choice of peaceful dissolution of the Union, a civil war which would end in the same, or an unconditional surrender of every principle held dear by freemen." Here is one laid by dames S. Fike, long editorially connected with the New York Tribune, and now Minister to the Netherlands : ' 1 have no doubt that the free and slave States ought, to separate. The Union is not worth supporting in connection with the South' j Here is one laid by Wendell Phillips! shortly after the organization of the Hepublican party. He was speaking of that party : " No man has a rigid to be surprised at this state of things. It is just what we Abolitionists ami lMsunionists have attempted to bring about. It does not know its own face, and calls itself national ; but it is not national; it is sectional. The llepubliean party i a party of the North pledged against, the South." Here is one laid by Win. Lloj-d Garrison about the ame time :

" The Republican party is moulding public sentiment in the right direction for the specific work the Abolitionists are striving to accomplish, viz : The dissolution of the Union, and theabolition of slavery throughout the land." Here is one laid in 18Ö0 by the NewYork Tribune : Till-. AMKTtK'AX FLAG. "Tear down the flaunting lie ! IIlf-ma.t tlie starry flag ! Insuit no sunny sky With hate's polluted rag ! Destrwv it, ve who can ! Deep sink it in the vaves ' It beard a fellow-nun To gtoim with fellow-slaTca." Here is another laid by the same Tribune in December, 1 S00 : " Whenever a portion of this Union, large enough to form an independent, selfsubsisting nation, shall see fit to say au

thentically to the residue, -we want to get awav from von," we shall say and we trust V ft' self-respect, if not regard for the princi pie of self-government, will constrain the residue of the American people to say llO . These are simply specimen eggs. Thou sands more like them were laid in the same nest and by the same sort of people. Tt was those eggs which Charleston hatched When she did so. she did a gigantic crime. hnl it was liliputian by the side of the crime of the men and the party who laid the eggs. Chtrttijtx Tiiw s. Tlio Tinny Assembling at TV. York What will Tlirydo will it ? A vast amount of speculation is being indulged in, and very naturally, as to the destination of the splendid army that i? being concentrated at this point. The city is full of troops, and all the islands in the bay and the adjacent country for miles around here arc dotted with encampments. There is at present a force of over thirty thousand men in and around New York, and it is being daily increased, so that we may expect in a week or two to reach fifty thousand men. It is composed of infautrv, cavalry and artillery in due proportion, and it is in every respect officered, equipped and disciplined up to the highest standard of excellence. What will we do with it ? This is the question thar is puzzling the minds of the whole community. At first it was supposed that it was intended to overawe and suppress all riotous demonstrations that the enforcement of the conscription law might give rise to. This was a mistake. The draft has been going on with the utmost regularity, in peace and good temper, without the remotest approach to resistance, and yet the army, instead of being withdrawn, as it would be if that were the object of its being sent here, is being sl-eadily reinforced. Then, again, a few wise heads among our own citizens and a great many nervous people in the Ilritish provinces have come to the conclusion that we are about to anticipate events by crossing the St. Lawrence and quietly annexing the Canadas to the American Republic. Not yet. That will come by and by; but the army of ."(, f 00 men encamping in and around New York is not destined for that pleasant and easy conquest, and our Canadian friends need not get excited for yet a little while. Others might imagine that it was intended for operation against the rebels, except it is plain to everybody that the Confederacy is at its lat gasp, and that it is entirely unnecessary to have recourse to any new army to accelerate its dissolution. None of these guesses, therefore, are correct. And yet this mysterious army lnn-d. have a destination. What is it ? We will try our hand at unravelling the mystery. We had. when this Southern rebellion !.:-oko out. a republic as a neighbor a republic unfortunate, it is true, and suffering calamitously from civil discords. While we w ere engaged in restoring our own government and putting doivi: armed treason, an ambitious European Power stepped in and overthrew our neighbor's government, establishing in its stead the monarehial principle, which is entirely contrary to the instincts and interests both of .Mexicoamlof the United States. Well, now that by the virtual subjugation of our own rebellion we can a fiord to pay some little attention to our neighbor's n Hairs, we propose to undo what has beer, done or attempted to be done by the Emperor of the French. The army about which so much speculation has been indulged in is intended lor that little piece of business. It w ill probably be transported without much loss of time to the harbor of Yera Cruz, and will plant the emblem of freedom on the castle of San .Ju an d'Ulioa. It will not be the first time forthat flag to float from those ramparts. The French army will thus be locked up in the interior; and will not be very well able to get out until the imperial programme is thoroughly renounced and abanloned. Our sister republic will then be left free either to reconstitute herself and mike another effort at civil, religious and

constitutional freedom, or will have the optiou of entering into the family of States of the American Union. All this can be accomplished without much trouble or difficulty, and unless Louis Napoleon desires to have a war with us. he will be left free to withdraw his forces. If he desires war he can be indulged to any extent he wishes in that costly luxury. He made the great mistake in supposing that the American Republic was in such straits, that he might carry out, with little or no risk, his ambitious views on this continent. We will try, with all proper po

liteness, to undeceive him. We arc neither regardless of the welfare of our neigh bors nor unable to defend them. Our ability keeps pace with our will. We cannot permit exploded principles of government to be forced upon any people in this hemisphere by European despot?. Civil and religious liberty belongs to this continent, and must not be supplauted. The French ruler has, therefore, committed a grave political error in supposing that we would quietly acquiesce in his policy. Because we allowed Southern demagogues to swager and boast not deeming it worth while to notice their silly talk about Southern valor and Northern cowardice' Louis Napoleon seems to have swallowed all that nonesense, and to suppose that he might experiment at pleasure on this side of the Atlantic. The time has come for him to be taught that the people of the free .States of America have in themselves the wealth, the power, the resolution and the ability not only to crush out rebellion at home, but to accept any i?suc which foreign nations may force upon them. The dynasty of the first Napoleon fell before his Moscow campaign. His nephew had better sec to it that the like result do not follow the equally ill-advised expidition to Mexico. It surely will, unless he recall immediately his expedition under Marshal Forey, and leave the people cf Mexico masters of their own destiny. y. F. ILjmbL Amusing Himself. A green customer who was a stranger to mirrors, and who stepped into the cabin of one of our ocean steamers, stepping in front of a large pier glass, which he mistook for a door, he said: ul sav, mister, when dovs this here boat start?" " Receiving no reply from tlie dumb reflection of himself, before him, he again repeated: 'I say, mister, when does this here boat start?" Incensed at the still silent figure, he broke out: '(Jo to thunder! von darned passafraseolored, shock-headed hull-calf! you don't 1 ok as if you knew much anyhow." hs When (Jen. Lafayette was in the Unit ed States, two young men were introduced to him. He said to one, 'arc yon married?' Yes sir,' was the reply. 'Happy man quoth the General. He then put the same question to the other, who replied, 'I am a batcltelor 'Lucky dog said the General. This is the best essay on matrimony extant. A young holy, a sensible girl, gives the following catalogue of different kinds of love: "The sweetest, a mother's love; the longest, a brother's love; the strongest, a woman's love; and the sweetest, strongest, longest, dearest love, the love of a bonnet." A French paper says that a New Zcland chief had just taken up his residence upon a piece of land, his right to which was contested. ''I have an undoubted title to the property," he observed, "as I ate the preceding owner." A clergyman on his way to church one Sunday, was overtaken by a heavy shower of rain. On arriving at the vestry, he exclaimed, rather impatiently, "1 wish I were dry!" "Never mind," said his colleague. "you will soon be in the pulpit, and there ou will be dry enough." Sao. The lllufl'ton Banner gives an account of the apprehension and trial of J. B. Fairchild, editor of the Wells County Union, and his wife Melinda, for stealing bed-clothes, table-cloths, queensware and wearing apparel, belonging to Mrs. Lewis, a soldier's wife, of the value of $20 or more. They were held to bail in the sum of $100 each, in default of which they were committed to jaib This is truly melancholy! Mr. Fairchild was an intensely "loyal" editor, and has ever denounced '-copperheads" vehehemently, and given the "government" an unequivocal support. That he should thus be cut down in his usefulness is really too bad. Other men, no more "loyal" than he, are permitted to steal their hundreds of thousands, why then is the civil law permit led to lay its rude grasp upon this patriot? Abraham Lincoln, the country a-k von why?

Art cm us on tlie Draft.

Circular Xo. 78. As the undersigned has been led to fear that the law regulating the draft was not wholly understood, notwithstanding the numerous explanatory circulars that have been issued from the national capital of late, he hereby issues a circular of his own; and if he shall succeed in making this favorite measure more char to a discerning publir, he will feel that he has not lived in vain. 1. A young man who is drafted and inadvertently goes to Canada, where he Incomes embroiled with a robust English party, v;ho knocks him around so as to disable him for life, the same occurring in a liceused bar-room oa British soilr such young man cannot receive a pension on account of said injuries from the United States Government, nor can his heirs r creditors. 2. No drafted man, in going to the appointed rendezvous, will be permitted to round by the way of Canada on account of the roads being better that way, or because his "Uncle William" lives there. 3. Any gentleman living in Ireland.who was never in this country, is not liable to the draft, nor are our forefathers. This latter statement is made for the benefit of these enrolling officers who have acted on the supposition that the able-bodied male population of a place included dead gentlemen in the cemeteries. 4. The term of enlistment is for three years, but any man who may have been drafted in two places has a right to go for six years, whether the war lasts or not a right which this Department hopes he will insist on. o. The only son of a poor widow. wWc husband is in California, is not exempt, but the man who owns stock in the Vermont Central Railroad, is. So also are incessant lunatics, habitual lecturers, persons who ; wero born with wooden legs or false teeth. Blind men (unless they will acknowledge that they 4 can see it,") and people who voted deliberately for John Tvler, 0. No drafted man can claim exemption on the ground that ho has several children whom he supports, and who do not bear his name, or live in the same house with him. and who have never been introduced to his wife, but who, on the contrary, a ro endowed with various mothers and "live round." A. Ward. The Vkrmoxt Election. The failnre of the telegraph to report the Vermont election, held nearly two weeks ago, was a most favorable omen; the sign was verified. A Montpclier correspondent of the New York Express says: Our election has been held, and the democratic vote is quadrupled from that of last year, notwithstanding a system of brow-beating, bullying and intimidation unequalled even by the despotism of the French Empire. Many of our former leaders have done all possible to prevent our votes being increased from last year, but in vain. It is more than four this year to one last. We have done well better than we expected. "The conscription U very unpopular here, and another draft would make the State democratic, infernally 'black as it is. Republicans vie with democrats in denouncing it. There were 4.700 names drawn and out of the number the government got about 700 men." The Vermont Argus gives the democratic gain since last year as over ten thousand! Good enough for the democracy of Vermont. The ball is moving gloriously, and irresistablv. Democratic. Thomas Je Hereon, when Vice President, seeing the efforts of the administration of the elder Adams to brin upon the people the same evils with which Abraham Lincoln is cursing Us, wrote a letter to a fri?nd, in which he enunciated the following Democratic sentiment: "I am for preserving to the States the powers not yielded to the Union. I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring abont n legal ascendency of one sect or another, for freedom of the press, and against all violation of the Constitution to silence by force, and not by reason, the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens ag'anst thi conduct of their agents." Why do not the .L'fTersonian Democrats," who support Abe Lincoln in h'u usurpMiens, refer, sometimes, to this doctrine of Jefferson?

At.L Riw-ht. The Cleveland Leader says : "Th? government has decided not to retain any officer in the army whose viewson the war policy are not in consonance with its own." Good, but why not carry the same decision into the ra iks. It would be just as fair and more honorable. If the "Gevernment" does not want otlicers to remain in the army to fight for a oliey they cannot endorse, why should it compel a private to, or why force men snto the ranka by conscription w ho are not only opposed to the. policy of the Administration, but to the war also. Will some administrationist explain thii inconsistency ? S. .

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