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the proceedings of. the meeting held at Indianapolis last Thursday will have jut precisely the same effect in Jeff. Davis' dominions. A cony of the Cincinnati

Gazette, Cincinnati Commercial or Indianapolis Journal will be worth more to Jeff. Davis and his fellow conspirators than ten regiments of men, armed and equipped, notwithstanding they will well Vr.ow that the wholesale charges of disloyalty against over one half of the people of Indiana are utteily fale the speeches and resolutions will be spread

If this gathering of the satraps, lick spittles, sycophants and hangers on of the State and National administration was not intended to stir tip strife and discord, their words belie their motives. There was no argument advanced by any

of the speakers to convince the opponents of the administration wherein they were wrotg, but each and all indulged in gross

vituperation and denunciation, a contin

ual medlay of epithets and threats, as if the. people, brave men, were to be frightened by stich a contemptible set of plunder crabbing miscreants, all reaking

Sound ani Patriotic Sentiments. In New Yorl city a Society has been formed, composed of the most eminent men in the country, for the "Diffusion of Political Knowledffe " The following is a brief extract of the

Tha Legislature. Th probability is that the Legislature i 1 1 be unable to transact any more business dur ing tho present session in consequence of thr bolt of the Republican member, who hnvt eeceded and pono to parts unknown. Thi. act effectually bloolcs ho wheels of Icjrisln tiort nnd leaves the Ht.ite povcrn merit with out appropriations Tor the coming two years The act of the Republican members is revolutionary find in utter disregard of their oaths The pretext that they itdopted thi acthod to prevent unconstitutional Ijegisln tion is too simple and transparent to dceiv if the Legislature should transact uncon litutional laws the Governor has a remrl in the ve'o power, and the people in the Supreme Court This act of the Republican jnmhere is in Seeping with the teachings o the leaders of the party, and must be firmly

met and sternly rebated by the people i: hey would picserve even the forms of cii government.

before their deluded followers as facts, ! with political corruption and not a few nnd will encourage them to struggle on, with bad whisky. Their expression of cheered by the hopes of division in the ! devotion to the Government mint be

xtews iTmxs. The officers of the British frigate Petrel, which arrived at Hampton Road from Charleston on the 57th 'renort that

address of Prof F. B. Moiti (inventor of j ti,e.rebIss have the channel filled with the magnetic telegraph) oa taking his- seat a tor !oeRf rr.pmrtA t0 blow up any resPresident of the Society on the evening ol . ... , . n()tj. J ael which may attempt to enter the harGentt.evex: T cannot taV the chair this j or evening, to which you have been pleasad in Nearly two hnndred Federal cavalry

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of definition of my position in irhuirn to tha movement which we have inaugurated. Nothing in thee days of our country's trial has no saddened the hearts of patriots, and caused such universal misgiving touching the ststbilijy and even the existence of our cheri-heJ government, as tho constantly rerurrinc evidences of a deep and wide spread

l-mcializntion pervading the public mind, to

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North and ultimate success for their cause, lightly interpreted -they are devoted to ?.- me V' . , , " Jf

it just so long as they can hold fat offices ienj tiieir powerful inSunce to strengthen

The meeting was a rebel encouraging af

fair, and wa believe the leaders intended

and not be required to perform any du-

it as such the evidence in almost cou- ties, and they well know that the moelusive that tho real object of these mis- nient truly loyal, able and honeit men creants is to seek a pretext, by creating M5,ime control of onr public affairs just ,. - .1 v- .i i .u j so soon tho services of all Mich montedivision in the North, and uniting the , , ... . . . .,. ,

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South, to recognize the Southern Con fed e racy.

THio Constrcpt Law. This law has pihyrJ.oth houses of Congress and only awaTnf which it "las doubtless rrceivert ere thisfthe signatnre of the President to become a law. It is stringent-and even arbitrary in its provisions, putting the person and services of

every able bodied man, black and white fMr. Sumner offered an amendment that there hould bo no distinction of color obrved in levying the draft, which wns adopted) excepting fathers of sma'l motherless children, at the disposal of the President for a term not exceeding three years at any one time, unless they are able to pay a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, which exempts them, a distinction in favor of the wealthy against

The Gathering at Indianapolis. There was a large gathering of people at Indianapolis on Thursday last at a meeting called by tha supporters of the State and National administration. The railroads cariied excursionists at half fare, free ticket were liberally distributed and large numbers, who had no nyinpathy with the occasion itself, availed themselves of the reduction in fair to isit the Capital, either on business or for pleasure. The military pageant was

quite impoang, and the air resounded with the thunder ofecanon burning government powder, for which the people will have to pay. The principal speaker was Gov. Andy.

Johnson, of Tenu., a satrap of tho Lincoln administration, and who used his best efforts to carry Tenncsseo for Breckinri '.ge in 1850, well knowing the designs of the Southern conspirators who put him in nomination. The speech waan empty declamation of absurd and baseless theo

ries, freelr interladed with cant, hypoeracy, vituperation and fal.s;hood. We shall take occasion to refer to it at some future 'lay and put some of its passages in juxtaposition with former uttcrauce of the same gentleman. He was followed by Gen. Cary, of

dispensed with.

We here and now tell the people, if they listen to and follow the advice cf such men nur country is hopelessly lost, and in the place of prosperity and peace we will find only turmoil, strife and bloodshed.

the poor man. Wc idiall publish tlx

law entire so 6oon as a correct copy shall 1 n' au itinerant temperance lecturer

come tq hand, lli Mid the Picttident intends immediately issuing his proclamation for six

'ne among tho many vile creatures who has been the recipient of high honors at the hands of this administration. Hit.

or ei'ht hundred thousand men, to be at! 8Peech ws a crirae ' itself. a disgrace to

once drafted inlb the serri, p tn fill humanity and an msnlt to decency. He

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iiepieted rank of regiments already in the field. The necessity for a law of this kind, for if is (matted because- no more voluntary enlistments could be made, is a condemnation of the war policv of the adminis-

is the same creaturo who advocated about one year ago, in a public speech, the indiscriminate massacre of the white residents of the Southern Slates, regardless of sex or age. Ha has all the brutal instincts of a crazy fanatic, which he is.

t mt ionhad it adhered to the originally j nd tne murderous propensities of a cowdeclared objects of the war as expressed) ar 'J assassin. The burthen of his speech ia the Crittenden resolution, listened to! of conrse was "traitor," "copperhead,"

vrire of reason aiu common sense instead of the senseless clamor of fanatical abolitiouidts and life longdisunionists,

ot men who advocate the war because its

j and similar choice epithets.

This military beauty was followed by another dubbed Capt. Copp. His harrangua, it can not be called a speech, is a

Hypocracy Exposed. The Republicans held one of their "unconditiocal union" last dollar and last man rut;?'.

ins, (a counterpart of the affair in this place) at Kushville on the 21st. After proclaim injr and resolving their willingness and determination to sacrifice their la?-t dollar, and even the lives, in a "vigorous prosecution of

the war," and splitting their throats with loud hurrahs, they were put to a test they but little expected, and which most effectually exposed their hypocracy and insincerity o! thcr professions. The Jatksonimi thus tells

the story, which is literally true and can be substantiated by irrefutable witnepses : After Col. llyan had concluded, and the meeting had fledged "their lives, their for tunes, and their sacred honor" for the vigorous proeecution of the war to the last man and the last dollar, Mr. Henjamin K. Trew, a soldier in Capt. Denning's battery, arose nnd remarked that he was glad to perceive the

patriotic sentiments pervading tne meeung, that he thought, judging from their enthusiasm, that this would he a good place to pel volunteers, that the battery to which he wan attached, wanted some more men, and he felt confident he could get them here to-dav. Mr. Trw then eloquently appealed to the young Republicans present to a me 'forward, and help crush out the rebellion lv enlistin-'

under the Stars und Stripes, in the jrranil Union army. Thi speech fell like a wet

blanket on the meeting. o cheers followed it !t was adninper. It was putting t'e Uepuhlicans to a test of patriotism they did not seem to relinh. The must vociferous war-and-thunder Abolitionists, who. all day, had been exhibiting their patriotism by cheers for the other speakers, and had been almost tearing their shirts to pieces in wild enthusiasm for the prosecution of the war, suddenly grew hoarse, and couldn't give even a faint cheer

to Mr. Trew Never was a meeting more completely expoeod, and its sham pretences and borus patriotism more thoroughly bud hare. Xot a man or a boy responded to Mr. Trew's invitation! Xot a man or a boy in that large llpublican meeting covfd be induced to enlint for the prosecution of that war, in support of which they had just pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred hom rl The most blatant Abolitionists hung their heads, and made no response. They knew how glaringly their deceptive and bogus patriotism was exposed to public caie. They are perfectlv willinz. nav

remarkably anxious that others should tro to i . ..1. .t ..

and perpetuate. Fanaticism ruls the hour. The Fanatie is on the thmne. 1 use the trin fanatic in no loose sense. Fanaticism is a Irerizy, a madness. It is not, as it retends t lib, a zeal springing fn-in enlighten ed reason founded on the rock of God'e word, but a spirit of the pit, clothing itself in our day iu the jrarb of an angel of light, the l.etut to deceive the mind of the unthinking and the simple. Fana i sm has been well in i .i lit. i ti I

uennea. cnuiusiam inaumea uy naueu aiu the truth ot the portrait of the l'oul fiend is exhibited before us every day. History, ever repeating itself, as time com pletes its cycles, has not vet closed its 6ad

volume of disastrous hallucinations. It is preparing its pages, and reddening its pen to record the story of the foulest trajredv ol earth, th most frightful that is yet to deform the annals of the past

tan patriotic men, persuaded oF such an issue, he silent, be idle? There may be those who fold their arms and shot their eyes nnd lull their apprehensions with baseless dreams of a future, "visionary, impossible

union a union begi t'.en of force and fear, not a Union begotten of peace and love ; a union to be created when tho South sha'l be wiped out of existence and its soil prepared for Northern colonization , when the Southern earth shall be "without form and void." and has become the desolate habitation for the advent o!" the new Northern man. Uui there are otnerr. who have awakened to the realities of the tiinee Thev cannot but rend the portentous signs of a coining destruction. 1 1 the poisonous seeds sown tor hnr 3-ears, by a proud, God-delying infidelity in France, have shown their natural fruits in the bloody dramas of the Heign of Terror, how can we

believe tiiat.lhe same seeds, exotic though we

hope them to be, yet now flowering in an ar

tificial atmosphere, and in a hot lieu made con

object as avowed caters to their ptejndi-i

res, uicre would have been no necessity f r a iaw o this kind, the men it takes

lj ' fair index, in sentiment, logic and argu

ment, of most of the utterances there on that day, and we give an extract from the

will go by compulsion and against their ! rePort of the Cincinnati Gazette, that

willthey wilt have no heart in the cause and will hut poorly maintain the brilliant. laurels that now wreaths the brow of the American . Volunteer Soldier. It is aUo a condemnation of the incinceritv, hypocracy nnd cowardice of these last dollar and last man gascanading patriots, v-ho bloviate about Kacrificing their lives,

their-fortunes and their sacred honor (the

the people may judge for themselves on

what "meet our Caeser feeds," as well as the style of men ami principles that are upholding ami defending the policy of this execrable administration. "Captain Copp said that the day had come when, if a traitor opened his black lips, that every Union man should give him a passport to the devil to where he belonged.

hen he found a traitor right here in

genial to their rank grdwth bv American in-

fidelirv in church and State how can we

believe. I nav, that we shall pluck grape

from these thorns, or figs from these thistles?"

Hut what can we do to root out theee nox

ious weeds? We must put machinery in nu

turn ailur ted to that eud 1 he heresies ol

the church must be grappled with bv the un

tainted theologians of the land, for there are

thousands of these who have not bowed the knpp trt thp nliotitinn Thr !iii-psii ol

the State can he and must be reached in a 'els.

constitutional w ty by the iutellects of the country. If I have read the provisions of the Constitution aright, this meeting in its object, and its modes of reaching that object, is wholly and completely constitutional. We have however been assailed by those whos -. rceord nnd antecedents should not make either the act or I he manner of the act

surprising to ks. We are instructed, howev

er, that charity "rejoiceth not in lmrinity, and the injunction in this case is salutary, for the temptation is certainly strong to rejoice, rather than to feel indignation at the gross indecencv our opponents have thought

proper to perpetrate. It is not, indeed the iniquity of which these libelers have been guilty, and which has drawn down upon them one universal cry of shame from nil decent men, that tempts our rejoicing; it is their having given to the public such an unmis

takable manifestation of that reckless, un-

It is reported than an attempt was made to assassinate Gen. Banks in New Orleans, a short time ince. He was fired

at as he was about entering his carriage to attend the Opera, the kadi whistling close to his head. The would be assassin escaped, but four men have been arrested on suspicion. Certain parties are raid to be busy in preparing charges against Gen. Mc-

Clellan, with a view of having him court martialcd. It is quite evident the abolition disiinionits will looso no opportunity to cripple McClellan, as he is altogether too popular with the army and the honest masses of the people to suit their puipose. Another revolution of a serious nature and wide spu-ad has broken out in Poland against the oppression of Russia.

The French are making considera

ble hwadway in Mexico. At last accounts

they were marching on the capital of

Sonora, eight thousand stong.

The Senate will be convened in Ex

ecutive HMif n after the adjournment of

of Congress, for the purpose of consid

ering the militaiy appointments made by

tho President, and which can not be

reached prior to adjournment. , Gen. Grant vxprckses cheering hopes of being able to reduce the rebel strong hold on the Mibsissippi, Vicksburgh, and aks for but a few more days for preparation. The rain Queen of the West, which run the blockade of batteries at

ViVksbuigh a idiort time since, was finally disabled by shots from the rebel battel ies at Port Hudson and cptured. The new iron clad gunboat Indianalo, which also run the blockade, is reported an having been disabled and captured. The loss of thee boats, in themselves, is no serious detriment to the Federals, in cac they should be destroyed and not immediately repaired and manned bv the rcb-

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Ufork to perfrct-oa. It e. ft!!, bev.taud. Ither, tack,, qmilt, and h cj ci:y frr arm: anetjr tf rniU work. This Uki tha only fectua cm fil,ks.U4 odaa forth. bt it will ! - Wttar ttaan a; ctfear Saa clua. Tha Letter".' tWy S;r.j KatViaa saav atr had in a frail ra id? at cv'hk-1 cms. 1 ha Faldiaf Caas which is uaw beo a.i C rT-'-r, i. aa itenaax iMf-Uas OM that can be fle itto V i or caac, whirh,wLaawav e-J, mikfj tatiful, tu'aiaii! l.auj jCKat ul ie forth wor to rat upuD. Thr ce axe vf -y imatiua'-le 4--

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l"c ' , , ' " 11 the North, he would shoot him. like any .vill be no sacrifice at all) to prosecute the oth.r do. When he would draw a bead

war anil tu.taiu the administration.

Had they put their fulsome resolves into practice they would have been entitled to some credit, but ns they have done naaipht but Peek ofliie, guzzle bad whiskey and incite mobocraoy at home, they

on a traitor he would bring him down, for he knew the;r game, and would stop it. And then there are tbe chicken thieve, night-sneaking traitors, who go round the country peddling Judge Perkins' speech. Why, thin Per

kins ought to be hung like any other cr-

Ptand convicted as aiders and abetore of non ttU the foul bm ot the nr picked government contractors and thieves J picce-. He , , , , , , had a son at Wurtreesboro. and none of Irftker in patriotism, and the worst and the dirty, sneaking scampa should abuse, no-t despicable enemies of free govern- j should stab hiin in the dark. He spoko me-nt and civil order. We hope they 0f the Indianapolia Sentinel. Chicago inayhavean opportunity to test their Timea and Cincinnati Enquirer; said loyally nnd devotion about which they : that those miserable, dirty, lying sheets have so loudly prated in the ranks at were given away so as to get the boy to eleven dollar per mouth, paid in green lead them. He wanted to know if anr

Lacka at seventy-nve per cent discount, of those lying doga at home ever gave n

cent to a soldier. 1 hey never have. They

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nf a meeting held bv the friends of Jeff. k'"5"" . , . "ieii. ers, and tarring and feathering women, Davis managed by his satraps and oBi- they had nothing to say ; but when we cial vassals, in Mississippi cr some other . were fighting for the Constitution and Htate composing the 6o-called Confedera . tn" lniun, they met us with that old ciy

cy; in which the speeches and the resolu-

of Abolition.

Now you may set it down as a fixed

tiotia declared that over one half of the fctth,oy man who takes thoe ahet

people of Lite. state, ..and even the Legis- 'au l believe in them is a tiaitor at heart, Utvre itself,' was disloyal to the govern- or a crazy fool. niehl f Jefl. Darifi and in favor of tha Snca jnen aA thia Copp aie notdzn Oil rnfen. ,Yhat would we think? groa a man may tweek their noat or Wouldn't wo be iaeline&to beliere that offer them Any oiher indignity with perthe confederscy was f bed way that feet impuntty. to long it ha dot) not a haiio divide-i against iutlf cunct t h fcesk to tb:a.

We are a constant reader of the Cincinnati Gazette, Cincinnati Commercial and Indianapolis Journal, and are constrained to say that if wo believed one half these sheets contain we should advocate that stealing is a virtue, lieinj, and villification a commendable accomplishment, murder and incendiary, ism the highest traits of lojalty, that it is the duty of tho majority to succumb to the mi nority, that wo should incite revolution rather than yield an iota of our political prejudices, that the Constitution and the laws are a nullity when they stand in the way of the de

signs of our ruler, that the idea that the people are tbe source of all power is au old toy notion, a false theory instilled into their minds by such old fogy's as Washington. Madison. .JeSeraon, Henrv, Jackson, Franklin, and others of their day. These are the teachings of these sheets, and national ruin and demoralisation will be tho inevitable result if any :reat portion of the people heed and adopt their teachings. Railroad Majtaorrs trtixo zo "Scppress' A Newspaper. Certain rUUroal Managers out West, it ssems, are trying their hand at "shutting up'' anti-Administration journal, a li Stanton and Schenck, as witness the following : Vi ViS ChiMga Jimtt, Saturday Mr. E. R Talcott. General Superintendent of the G:vIcnA and Chiciga Union Uailroad, h is prohibited the sale of the Chicago Times on the trains of that ro:d. We give tbe Galena and Chicago Union Railroad Company just twelve hours in which to revoke this prohibitory order. If they do not reroke it within twelve hours-whieh twelve hours will expire at six o'clock this evening we will take them into Court and into the Legislature, and it shall be seen what virtue there ia in law and in the law making power. The order of the Superintendent was annoted by the President within the timespeei fied.

It is rnmored that a large detachment of Morgan' force in Kentucky has been completely runted by the Federal forces. Gen. Rosecrans has done it. He ia said to have issued an older prohibiting

the circulation of the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Chicago Times in the army of the Cumberland. He is evidently determined to nbolit ionize the armveive

them a purely abolition diet and eventually so degrade the men in their own es

timation that w 11 consent to serve in the

ranks with negroes. He may possibly be ieilioiii?iir without his hosts.

principled spirit which is so rife in the ranks' There are tumors afloat that the reb-

Rmember tbaplaoa itorth alia Public tquar. twa 4ara Wat ot the ol-l kUtid. Ma. 1St-

The Season Opened !

On and afvr tVa lat. ur.t 1 tha rl.jM vi tbe -eaaoii. 1 aital . rcon Daily Uy Kxpiets,

of fanaticism, and which it is our purpose il

possiDie exorcise. Societies of a similar nature to the above should be organized by the friends of free government in every State where the Constitution ia yet wholly or partially respected.

els have evacuated Vi kburgh, and also

another that tbe Federal fmceshave been defeated with a loss of twenty thousand i? 111 ri .

Kiueu, oi wnom seven monsana were

drowned, and also another that a great

For a brief season tbe enemies of the Union i battle has been fought with great loss on

A few abolition reptile are busy in

circulating the false tomor that Wesley Kimbarlin, Co. P. 51st Regiment, reported among the missing at the battle of Murfreesboro, had deserted. The rumor is maliciously false II- wa tnken prisoner by thf reb!, and at last account waa el Aaaapolia, mait-

nnd the Constitution succeeded in diverting

attention from themselves und their plans ol treason, ao'thatthe people permitted them to make terrible progress in their insidious and deadly work of enmity to tbe rights nnd lib erties of the people. But the hour of wisdom and reflection has arrived, the people have

again had an "uprising," and the power of the abolitionist disunionists is at an end. But the people are in that state of mind which always follows a sudden waking They need and they ask fc.r instruction. N t for the ranting declamation of fanatics in tl e pulpit or on the rostrum ; net for diequi.i tions on the abolitionist text, ''The Constitution is a league with death and a covenant with hell:" not for appeals to nil the evil passions of the humnTi heart malice, envy, hatred ; not for falsehood glibly fold and firmly clung to; not for any of the devices by which they h ive been deceived and well nigh ruined. The people want to know the history of their government They want tho counsels of the fathers repeated for their instruction. They neod to know how this got eminent was founded, why it was made ns it was, what were the principles that have made us prosperous, our name famous, onr fame glorious. It is time, too, that the mask be torn from tho face of the radicol enemy, who, in tbe very inidbt of our loyal masses, has been insidiously plotting our ruin. The signs uf the timws ara improving. There begins to b reason to believe that the venerable Mr. Bryant, the greatest of American poet, will live to rejoice in the fulfillment of his magnificent words of prophecy : "Truth crushed to earth will rise again, The eternal year of Gd are hers. Hut Error wounded writhes in rain, And dies atuid her worship 's.'

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both side, but without anv decided re

sult. There is but little credence to be

attached to thee tumors.

den. UoKfcran bat advanced to

Middleburgh, half way between Mnr frees

; boro and Shelbyville.

Ym. Sprague has resigned his po

sition as Governor of Rhode Idand in order to take his seat as U. S. Senator.

It is staled and generally believed that n fleet of fifty vessels, many of them

iron clad, is in course of construction at

the various rdiip yaids in England, nominally for the Emperor of China, but in fact for thr Southern Confederacy. Gen Sicgel has resigned. Jeff. Davis has appointed the 27tli of. March to be observed aa a day of fas ting and prayer throughout tbe Southern Con federacy . -The total isne of paper money, bonds, etc., by the Secretary of the Treasury of the U. S., and authorized by acts of Congress to be issued, amonnt to the tiilling sum of two thousand mil lion eight hnndred and twenty-five thousand dollars only.

It is a tad reflection that the eonntry

is destined to endure the administration of Abraham Lincoln two years from yesterday. If wsgo to ttw devil as fast the last two years of hU administration as we have the fiiA

t two, tlie oooatry will ba f3 prayi fcs.

A Minority President. We almost daily hear some blaterant abolition ventilating his ignomnceby tbe assertion that Lincoln was elected by a majoity of the vote of the people. For the information of these ignoramus' we annex the eote for President in 1S60, by whieh it will be observed that Mr. Lincoln lacked nearly one million voa of a majority : TV.nple...'.; .... 1,375,157 Hr.ekinrid?e 847.053

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