Weekly Wabash Express, Volume XXI, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 August 1863 — Page 2

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WEDNESDAY,. ..AUGUST 12, 1863 ms

OCTOBER, ELECTION.

UNCONDITIONAL UNION TICKET

FOR COUNTS' AUDITOR, EDWARD B. ALLEN.

FOR COUNTY RECOEItEIi, RICHARD J. SPARKS.

FOR APPRAISER OF REAL ESTATE, ALFRED B. PEGG.

FOR STATE LEGISLATOR, RUFUS H. SIMPSCW.

THE Union majority in Kentucky be­

comes larger aa tbe details of tbo vote are received. It will be at least 40,000. It is a great triumph of the Union men, and will have its influence on tbe Ohio election. The butternuts feel awful sore over tbe result.— They have all been disappointed, in tbe result of this election. Tbo masses are leaving the tory leaders rapidly.

Cirand Union Rally at Paris.

A Union Mass Meeting will be held at Paris on Thursday, August 27tb, commencing at 10 o'clock A. M. Speeches, Fireworks, kc., in the evening. Gen. Dick. Oglesby and Hon. Owen Lovejoy, of Ills., Hon. Richard W. Thompson, of Ind., lion. Samuel Cary, of Ohio, and others, are expected to be present and address the assembly. We trust the people of Terre Haute will keep the day of this meeting in mind, and go over by hundreds. Let us help swell the crowd on that occasion by sending a thousand Union men to greet the Union men of Illinois oh that day.

THE Union meeting at Middletown on Saturday, was an immense affair. The crowd was estimated at five thousand per­

sons. The most unbounded enthusiasm was manifested over the continually brightening prospects of the Union cause.

We are informed that R. II. SIMPSON Esq made a most excellent speech, which occupied over one hour in its delivery. The Hon. R. W. THOMPSON also made one of his glorious efforts.

The Union ticket will triumph in this county by a majority of five hundred votes at least.

WE learn that on Monday evening Hon. D,

W. VOOBHEES started for Indianapolis, but on arriving at the depot, ho found the train pretty well loaded with furlouglied soldiers

and marines from Vicksburg, who refused to allow him to rldo -with them. Ho was, we are informed, compelled to delay his trip.

It has been but a few days since LATSIIAW, of Paris, was taken from the train at Charleston, Illinois, by ooine soldiers wo would have hung him but for tho intervention of the citizens of that place.

General JOHN A. LOGAN was right when he said Northern sympathizers would hunt their holes on tho return of the soldiers. Those who have created tho fire in the rear, can blame none but themselveB, if they receive hnrBh treatment from tho soldiers.

THE rebel papers aro mourning deeply

over tho discouraging aspect of their affairs in Alabama and Mississippi. They admit that desertions from their army are very numorous, and the subject is becoming a matter of tho most serious moment to the Confederate authorities. Tho troops from the two States referred to aro returning to their homes in largo numbers, and refuse to enter tho service again for the sinking cause of. tho rebel leaders. They admit themselves overpowered, and their causo utterly hopeless, and desire to return to their vocations of peaco. The Mobilo News says the condition ©f affairs in Alabama and Missi9 aippi, is horribly detrimental to the character and patriotism of the peoplo of those two States."

The prospect is that by the expiration of two months from this time the condition of affairs there will bo particularly horriblo in tho estimation of tho rebel journals and leaders.

Tho peoplo of the South aud West desire peace, and think a further continuance of tho war can only rosult in their further humiliation aud loss of proporty and life. That such is the casonono can doubt,, because the ovidenco is overwhelming on this point. Every particle of news both from rebel aud loyal sources confirms it.

It is to be expected that tho rebel leaders will continue tho slrugglo until they aro pow^ erless, and their forces abandon them, berauso, reputation, property and life itself will bo forfeited. There is a point, however, beyond which their endurance must yield, and that point is near at hand. Tho anuies of tho Confederacy must conlinuo to do crease in numbers from this time lot ward. Conscription will avail but little, while on the side the of Federal Government it will add to the already large armies of tho Union, an additional force of three hundred thousand men. Our armies thus increased in numbers and strength, and elated with success and an early termination of tho war. will crush in one campaign .every vestige of Confederate power. Such an occurrence will doubtless bo "horribly detcrimenta!." to the robol leaders and their Northern Sympathizers, but it will awaken the most unbounded applause from the friends of liberty, law mid order throughout tho civilized world.

Some wag, who sports tho twin

plume of "Bean Hackett, thus briefly but graphically narrates the tall of Vick-r-burg:

Pemberton asked for an interview with ©rant. On tho morning of tho Fourth Grant wient out to tho field calmly with a with a cigar in his month. Met Pemberton, "How aro you, rem.," said tho hero, indifferently, with a cigar in hi^ m«uth. "Grant," said Pemberton, in a voice trcmb ling with emotion, while the tear drops glistetidd on his manly forehead, Grant, we were bovs togethor let's quit fighting and go fishing."—"It's a warm day," said Grant coolly, with a cigar in his nth l'ein, I'll play, you one gnmo of seven-tip and decide whe ther you shall surrender or not." They withdrew for a few minutes by themselves. When they were six. Grant turned a jack firmly, with a cigar in his mouth. And thus ended tho bloodiest and most terrific struggle ever witnessed on this continent ,'Sho waves!"

The Indianapolis Journal savs the

"Spiritualists" ol this State had a three days" meeting at Cadi/, in Henry county, rccentlv. The Davenport boy-? were there, aud went through their tricks as usual, but not with the usual success One of the spectators who accepted the challenge to tio them so that the "spirit" could not untie them, fulfilled his engagement to the letter, or to the lint rather, and tied them so well that the "spirit*" had to loava them tied.

ButtergilrB

irattis in this-and- adjoining ct

ties arc on'tlie rampage about something.— The late rebel defeats and lossns in battle, together wUM^Unioa tfiuUpb iolveatucky 4ave reijjWrea itimperative-that the l&ders of tbtft party should do something to be saved. AccortJUigly they aroh'oldLngjneetings at all points of any considerable importance in the

District. Messrs. VOORHEES and COOKEELY are generally the orators on such occasions, and in their mad' and insane ravings, because of the lato rebel reverses, they curse almost everything and everybody but but their "Southern brethren."

But, gCBtiemeBijvm are only heaping upon yourselves, an amount of odium and scora, from which you canDOt cscape even when in your graves. -You have fought the friends of your Government, and smpathized with its enemies, in-the darkest hour of its existence, and because of this, your names,and the names of those like you, will be gibbeted on every hill-top throughout the land, thereto remain whilo tho history of this rebellion shall last, to be contemned by the loyalty of this great peoDle.

Because of the proclamation of Emancipation, or the suspension of the writ of hab:as corpus, or the arming of the negroes, you will not be justified in your conduct, nor will yOu be excused. Because the people know, that before any of these measures were contemplated by the Federal authority, you were us hostile to tho friends of the Union, aud as apologetic for its enemies as you arc now. In the beginning, before a soldier had been called into tho Federal service, and while the Southern tuaitors were organizing their armies for the destruction of the Union whilo they were plundering its arsenals, destroying its forts, robbing its mints, and firing upon its merchant ships on errands of peace and mercy, you said, "not a dollar, nor a man, nor a gun" should be given to crush the rebellion out. If its cause was then sacred to you so sacred that "not man, nor a dollar nor a gun" should be contributed to destroy its sacredness, what has its representatives since done to make it less sarred in your estimation? If the rebel ieaders have dooe what ought to make their caiHO less worthy in your opinions, you havo not condescended to inform your followers of that fact, but have contented yourselves with covering its crimes against God and humanity with tho veil of silence and warring inveterate!Y against tbo Union itself,

Theso things aro well known to the people. Thoy cannot be deceived by your machinations. Your fate is fixed and irrevocable a: the decrees of God himself: Tho rebellion is rapidly sinking, and if it drags down its apologists with it, they can charge the fault upon nobody but themselves

Crops in Indiana.

Tho State Journal says: Wo have several times given :r readers such a general view of tho condition of crops in this State as wo could get from our country exchanges, but, as every one may not draw tho same inferences from the same facts, wo shall to-day let our exchanges speak for themsclves,promising only that less than a fourth say anything on tho subject, and that what lias heretofore been said by tho silent three-fourths is in the main less favorable than we could havo wished. Tbe difficulty of arriving at any comprehensivo conclusion that shall not bo false as to many districts of country may bo judged from tho first two papers wo quote. The Noblo County Standard says "the potato and oat ciops of that county havo been materially injured by drouth, that oats have suffered from the ravages of an insect, and that flax, of which a considerable quantity has been sown, will bo light while tho'Noblo County Herald snya "the weather for tho past few weeks has been cplendid, and corn never looked bettor. Potatoes aro good., and this year promises to bo generally a most fruitful one." AI lowing equal information and accuracy to both papers, wo havo nothing for it but to conclude that tho prospect in Noble county is decidedly "split up." Tbe Marshall County 1'lcpublicau says that "corn and potatoes here arc growing finely under rcccnt light showers." This is the repoit from tho north. From the cast wo have the report of the Grant County Union, that "the drouth there is unbroken and tho corn seriously damaged of tho .Newcastle (Hcnrj County) Courier, that "it is desperately dry there,— that there has been no heavy rain for more than nine weeks,—and that corn will bo almost a total la lme, come what wil aud of the ConnersvillcTimes, that, "there has been no rain of any conscquenco in that section for tho last six or eight weeks. Corn, potatoes, and other fall crops will bo almost total

failures, unless they arc blessed with bountiful rains within tho next few days. Indeed many fields of corn are even now so much injured that rain would not save them.— Such a drouth has not been known there for ten years. Of com and late potatoes there will not. with tho most, favorable season during this and the succeeding month,bs more than halfor two-thirds of a crop." From the west, and Wub.ish region, wo learn from (he sper County (-layette, that "corn looks bad., and more rain, ol which tiiero has been very little, will not make it a good crop. Frames are cutting everything in the hape of ta:-s to feed tho extraordinary amount of stock Ihev expect to have on hand next, winter from tho Fountain County Ledger th it "the drouth tlreatens the destruction of tho co.in iheie that in some localities there 'ia. been no r.iin .since plttnlingr, and in others very little flip crops will bo a failure from the Hendricks County Ledger that "a great deal of the corn in that vicinity is p\st redemption ih it in tho uplands it will not vieid anything at all, while that on 'bottom' land looks hotter not moro than half rop will 1)0 made in tho county." From the ponth we havo nothing to-day. but the nerai tenor of former statements was good. The Owen County Journal says that not over "oalf a vrop" of anything will bo raised there. In Fountain aud Switzerland counties there were heavy storm? and severe falls of hail during the p.t-M week, which did some il.uni'c In Fount iiu, about, tho town of I Attie-i, the storiu as.-nmed the strength of a tornado, and blew down trees. Theso reports hardly siwta the ^anguine expectation of the New -Albany Ledger that tho crops will be littlo it any beiuv,' and average. We i.iclino sironglv to the opinion that tho drouth damaged corn and potatoes a good deal in most sections of tho State before it was broken, anil that in m.aiv section* it is not vet so far broken as to te-tore what has been lost, or prevent still greater damage. Com and potatoes will bo short this year let the weather from now on be what it may.

M.\RIMED—By Xenas Smith, at the Clark House, iu this place, on the 10th iust., Mr. GEORGK H. BUSBY, and Miss EMZABKTH I J. OSBOKN.

At the same time and pi ace, Mr. TUOJIAS B. A ODS and-Miss SUSAN OSKORN. Tbe parties were from Douglas connty, Illinois.

Whose wrosgia! blight The holiest cause that tongue or Of mortal, loft or sained. has ab«ipt.p^y*eyut the in Soutn and We3t |ln all that/vast section of fertile country *vest of tfee Mississippi rjver, its organize, .force is-1ncafrablefrf dainip any harm to any body but its friends. Even what force the

Confederacy has there, will be crushed and rendered harmless within the next six weeks, by the Federal forces. That portion of country has from the beginning contributed more to the support of the Confederacy than any other, and with each succeeding day the the Confederacy feels its loss'lhe moro severely. It is idle and futile for tho Richmond papers to say, that the loss of Vicksburg, and the consequent cutting of the Confederacy in twaip, does not weaken the rebel power, for such a statement is an utter absuidity. Tho Mississippi river throughout its full leBgth is under tho entire control ol the Federal Government, and the commerce of the West is borne upon its waters to the ocean almost as safely, as if its possession and control had never been submitted to the arbitrament of the sword by tbo belligerent parties.

From the commencement it lias been considered by our wisest men, that tho fate of the Confederacy depended altogether upon its ability to control the navigation of the Mississippi river. Without that advantag its downfall was a mere question of time. Now, this question is finally settled, and tbe rebel power in tbo southwest has been ei^ tirely broken and conquered. West of the river, rebellion is a thing of tbe past, and East of it, in tho State of Mississippi, no enemy exists to contest tho Federal advance.

The forces under Gen. .JOHNSON havo been driven from tho State, and his remaining foreo is so utterly demoralized that it is scarcely able to make a show of resistance to the Federal forces. His loss by desertion alone, since the fall of Vicksburg, is estimated at ten thousand men, and the remainder of his army is so entirely discouraged as to be worthless.

The rebel Generals have no opportunity of reclaiming their deserters, from the fact, that they can easily now, put themselves within the Federal lines, where their safety is a certainty. Neither Texas, nor Arkansas, nor Mississippi is worth anything to the Confederacy under the present circumstance. On tho contrary, their loss is rapidly dragging its power down to ruin.

The army of Gen. GRANT can go at will, wherever policy may dictate, and the rebel leaders aro powerless to help themselves. It is vaiu for them to rely on conscription to strengthen their armies, for three men de sert now, to where they can procure one conscript. So that, let the conscript law bo enforced with the utmost vigor, and it will avail tho Confederacy but littlo. Its power is rapidly disolving, and the rebel leaders have no possibilo ability to redeem themselves from the terrible ruin which now stares them in the face. Should tho Federal authorities hurry up tho draft, and place in the field tho full quota from each State, peaco will dawn upon the Union within eight or nine months from this timo. Every true Union man must desiro the draft to proceed to completion at the earliest possible moment.

C^^Tlie fnllse. -ion of tho Common Pleas Coutt convenes next Monday. The Circuit Court commences its s^rron the first Monday in next month

The 10th New Hampshire regiment

of n:ne months' men, passed through the city yesterday morning on a special train, from Poit Hudson en route to Concord, to be mustered out. They expressed lliemselvt fully qualified, and anxious to take caro of that low-minded traitor, Franklin Pierce, when they got to Concord, if he bellowed out any of his treasonable dodtrines

The Nashville Union says that a de­

serter from Bragg's army reports that the Right Reverend Bishop Major Gcnoral Polk has Riiperseeded Bragg, partly to allay tho fatal hatrod of tho Tennessee ami Alabama •roops, and stop the stream of desertions which tho rebel papers admit is fast depleting the army, and partly to give strength to a general revival said to bo going on in the rebel ranks at this time.

(it'll. A ppcnriiii(K?

MFcnrte's Prronstl rind Stylf.

As Gen. Meade rode through Frederck yesterday afternoon it. was whispered from neighbor to neighbor soKiicis convoyed the news to brother soldiers and anxiety followed surprise. That feeling of natural curiousity which impels us all to go out of our way even to look upon a distinguished man, was indulged in by citizen and soldier alike.

He stopped at the United States Hotel, and was soon visited by a deputation of tho ladies of tho town. On being presented, woman's feelings wero expressed in woni-ui's style.— •'God bless you, General," they would .«ay, and with an emphasis that showed the words issued from their heart. Tliey asked him to accept their boijuets and wreaths in token of the patriotism of Frederick. "I thank you," said General Meade, "not for myself, but for my soldiers they have won the victory, ahd to them belong tbe laurels.'' General Meade thon turned to tho staff officers, and to General Pleasanton, remarked in the hearing ol the ladies, "Ono of theso is for you, Pjeasanton, not only brave bachelor." General Meade shook the ladies by the hand, and ex pressed the plea'uro lie felt in meeting them.

General Meade is exceedingly affable in conversation, easily approached, nnd of lively engaging manner-. With no mitward pretensions to superiority, he rves a dignitv which noticeable hi ...Mtii his careexterior. Hi* form is gaunt and thin, impressing the idea bodily tenacity sat.her than strength, and a capacity to endure fat'guc that no ''mid not predict of a more robust and invincible figure. His high top booti» and loose blouse are bespattered with mud, and were it not for his shoulder straps and intelligent face, it would be difficult to distinguished that he was not a private in the ranks. His face is almost covered with beard, aud his neck displays a leather stock that might, havo been used in the days of his ancestors. He is otherwise collarless, aud hi face i« colorless, being of a ghastly pale, with thought, study and anxiety marked upon every lineament. His miud speaks through his eyes, and tells yonat a glance that before you stands a mau that is crjual to any responsibility and not afraid to meet it. in any shape, ilis nose is of the antique bend." which is the most prominent feature of his face. He appears a restless and nervous man, quick to move, but not so quick that celeritv would destroy steadiness. When addressed, ho turns sudileuly upon his heel, and is all attention. The more you see of him the more you like him. The army of the Potomac has known him only a few weeks and he is their idol.

IFNTTEJUORNJM.

[Captain JOHN J. P. BLISS, A. A. G., was mortally wounded at the battle of Gettysburg, dying after an iflnessjBf ten days. Leaving coHjfgc lio enterMHlie army, and served hs^ in af

Muffle the College Be'l, Toll etill another knell, For him who nobly fell,

Country to save.

I Offered at Freedom's tUrine, (Hint friend of yours and mine,) All w« can do, is twine

Flow'rs round his grave.

Fighting for God and right, Noble, in mmhood's might, Gona from earth, is the light

Of that young life.

Now, on the further shore, 'ictor forever more, Resting, his labor* i,

Kreefroui all strife.

Tears for the loved on?» left. Whom God has so bereft l!at tongs for him who slept,

IB Jeans' love.

1-^63. Lizzie B.

TUE following is a "Bachelor's Soliloquy on the Conscript Act," by which a married man of moro than thirty-five years is exempt:

To be,

Or not to l»e a conscriptt That's the question. Whether it is nobler in a man to marry— An able-bodied man of si\-and-thirty— And enter upon tho dread uncertainty Of matrimonial life with all its accidents, Perchance a fretful wife, a uumerous family, And bills interminable of grocer, baker, Butcher, and Doctor, (for such things will follow As surely as the night succeeds the day, Or take up arms against a sea of traitors, And by oijj08iny end them allt To marry— To sleep—no more. And by that sleep to end Tho heartache, and thethomand natural fears That flesh is heir to, on the Deld of battle Tho bursting bomb-shells ani tho whistling-bullet, The bayonet charge it were a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To marry to sleep To sleep! perchance to dream ay, there's the rub For iu that sleep what horrible dreams may come— A country murdered through my negligence— What terriole lectures may assail me there, By her who hath a legal right to "Caudle" me, Wh»n thus by marryiny, I haje 'scaped ths "DRAFT." Must give me pause: There's the respect That makes calamity of such a life. For he who would bear the whips and scorn of time Ee pointed at through all the yours to comer "There gees :i snenk, who, when hisconntty called him To bravely battle in the gloriou-i cause Of.Freedom and the Hope of all the worl.1. Hid, like a traitorous Copperhead, behind A petticoat'. Who, when lie might haye beeu A hero in the final victory, Where Right and Union vanquished Wrong and

Treason,

Did hit i/uuti/s -make wit/i a—woman!" But that tbe dread of something iu the South, That dark, rebellion.1!country, from whose bourn No traveler returns—puzzles the will.

Thus marryiny does make cowards of ng all, And thus tbe native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'r with the pale cast of fear, And eru^.-yijes of great pith aed moment, WiththTS regard their currents turn away, And lose the name of action.

Soft, you know I

My country calls. She whom of a'i I know Most worthy to be loved, is whispering, "Go!" I go nor will I press the nuptial bed Till ihe, who loves me, with a warrior wed,

BSfOn the day of the Presidential elec» tion iu 1SC0, Mr. Vallandigham traveled seven hundred miles to vote for Hon. S. A. Douglas.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Well, wo mil-it say that's pretty fast traveling, considering that the polls close at five o'clock on an October day. We should like to know what roads Yal. traveled over.— They aro worthy of a puff.

THE STORY IN A NUTSHELL.—Hon. Edward Everett says, and says Wuly, in tbo lastnum ber of tho New York Ledger, that the South really seceded because her ambitious men saw they must surrender the monopoly of the Government. This is the whole story in a nutshell. The South has prractically controlled tho Government most of tho time for tho last half century, and it has controlled it in the interests of slavery. The Whig party of the

in their bearing. Tho soldiers know their North, in attempting to enforce a more libfriends aye, and their enemies, too.

A SECOND DEAFT PKOBAULK.—Tho Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, says a new draft is thought likely to be ordered before long, to make up for the deficiency in tho amount of troops sought to be realized by tho first draft. It will be probably made again from the first class, and according to tho estimates of tho numbers likely to bo secured by the first draft, will be apt to call for about half as many more.

oral policy, was broken into fragments. The Democratic party was moro pliable, nnd was used as long as it could be made servicoablo for tho advancement of tbo ambitious schemcs of Southern politicians, but when everything was ripe for secession it was also broken tip. The restivenefs of tho people of the North, under the policy of tho slavery propagandist *, had convinced them that tho power would ultimately and finally pass from their hands, and this consideration, rather than fears of aggression upon the institution of slavery under the administration of President Lincoln, led to secession and rebellion.

The Newburyport Herald, in alluding to the large per cent, of exemptions granted by the enrolling officer, says: "One of two thiugs is true—there is cither much perjuiy, or we arc tho most sickly people that ever had existence. If it bo true that tho young men from twenty to forty-five aro so diseased and debilitated as is reported what is to be the physical condition of thcnextgcnoration.ol which these aro to be the fathers? This is a more fearful thought than even the rebellion itself

A i'Oi:ri LKXT iliseij cent hot day. aud pe._r ablo could scarcely be so warm, to which a

hot day, renin: Led, in an agony ol thirst

could scarcely be so warm, to which a

A visitor to the says that the groin is litorullv strewn shells, while nlnri^ tions wry few

An order for thirty stoves, to bo sent by the first boat, was received at St. Louis from New Orleans tho other day, and is regarded by the local pres." as one of the symptoms of the reopening of the vast trade formerly car ried on liPtween that city and New Orleans

A cKtKBRATKn writer says: "No woman can be a lady who would wound or mortify another. No matter how beautiful, how refined, how cultivated fhe may be, she is in reality rosr-'e. and the innate vulgarity of her nature maui tests itself here."

THK latrrt English papers announce the serious illness of Field-Marshall Lord Clyde. His disorder is atrophy, orin exhaustion of nature aud his physicians consider his case almost hopeless.

DURING the year IJ-63 there were manufactured jn Detroit, of ch6wing and smoking tobacco, about 4,000,000 pounds tho proceed of the sales, including cigars, was $2,-. 000,000 the laborers employed were about ,eoo.

Samuel Hartweil, a boy about fourteen years of age, son of Samuel Hartweil, of St. Albans, fell nto the steam vat at the tannery in that place, on Thursday last, and was terribly scalded that he lived but about an hour

The sum of $23,625 56 has been contributed in New York for negro sufferers by the iate riot.

tytTho battornuto had ^gstbsringcrSt, Marys yesterday. THE list of names of prisoners paroled at Vicksburg* filled a box about three feet long and two feet in width'.and tieptii,

EST Short dresses are said to be coming Jnto fashion,-and next winter nothing else will be seen in the grand saloons in Paris. |3P~ Johnston's troops, after tramping all over and through the Southern country, are now said to be going to Mobile. Certainly Johnston's is a mobile army.

CgTDied, on the 11th instant, Cora, infant daughter of Otto and Charlotte Wittenber, aged one year, nine months, and 29 days.

la? "The Parke County Republian says that Sylvester Williams, of that county, was arrested at Lodi last w6ek, and lodged in jail to await a trial for having appropriated more wives atonco than is allowed west of the Dardanelles, or east of Salt Lake. He has four wives at present.

Dr. J. C. Thompsou has been ap­

pointed Examining Surgeon under tbe Pension Law, vice Dr. ClippeBger, resigned.

W bear it rumored that an encampment of the militia of this county will take place soon, to last several days.

Our elHcient Post Master J. O.Jones,

left for Lake Superior and regions therea-

bnif

yesterday morning. He took bis family, and will be absent about ono month. E3?"" The Richmond papers are engaged in a "wild bunt" for tho man who telegraphed that Lee had taken forty thousand prisoners at Gettysburg. If they capture him as it is hoped he will be exchanged for some of our Washington telegrephers.

ILW" Gen llosecians hasjaccepted the resignations of tbe followfng officers of the 4th Indiana Cavalry:

Lieut, and Quartermaster John Thoenbaugh cause, disability 1st Lieut. Robert Woodall, Co. cause, "incompetency."

SENSATIONS ON BEING FIEST KIJ9KD. An

English writer (a lady) thus embodies her virgin emotions in the words of a timid confessional:—* "The first time she was kissed she felt like a vase of roses swim« ming in honey and eau de cologne. She also felt as if something was running through her nerves on feet of diamonds, escorted by several little cupids in chariots drawn by angels, shaded by honeysuckles, and the whole spread with melted rainbows."

E3P* The last words of Captain Abner Read, of the Navy, who was killed on one of our gunboats down the Mississippi recently, were striking. After half an hour of comparative freedom from pain, he remarked to the doctor: Well, doctor, I do not know that thero is any use holding on any longer I guess I will shove off," and with almo9t the same breath expired'

||®PThe 50th Massachusetts^ regime.nt of nine months men, whose term of service expired {in June last, passed here from the west to their homes Saturday morning last. Thay number over 800 men, and are a fine looking body of men. There are some thirteen moro nine mouths'regiments bound up tbo river cn route for the East to be mustered out.

We have received the following, with

a request to publish. We give it as written, omitting tho name: WANTED COESPONDENC.—a young Soldirof the army of tbe Cumberlan wants to open corspondenc with a young Ladi non but a loyil Ladi need to write adress,

Party

Co. F. 10th

Regit. Ind. vols., Tenn

E5F"Tti9 estimated that the cost of the horses which Morgan lost during his late raid was not less tnen $2,000,000. He stole more than ho lost, it is true, but as they were all re-taken they don't diminish the total loss of his experiment to the Confederacy. Horses aie now worth in Richmond about $500, and can't bo had at that. The dismounting of rebel commissary aud staff officers, by a recent order, shows that the cavalry arm of the rebel army is pretty much thinned, whilo on our s!do it is just beginning to assume its proper proportions.

BLACKBERRIES.—This fruit possesses great medical properties, and of a character as is often needed by the soldiers. Blackberry

Cordial should be put up in largo quantities. Tho season is fast passing but time enough yet remains to do a deal of good. The following is an excclledt recipe for cordial.

Tako ripe black berries, mash tbem with a wooden spoon or potato-masher pour the whole mass into a cloth that will allow the juice to pass through when squeezed take two quarts of blackberry juice, one pound of loaf sugar, one quarter ounco cloves, onehalf ounce cinnamon, ono-halfounco nutmeg, one-half ounce allspice boil it all fifteen minutes, and when cold add a pint of brandy.

During the prevalence of the heavy

storm Sabbath evening, a carriage was drivto tho Torro Haute House, containing three inmates—two ladies and a gentleman.

i. Their countenances betrayed no terror—but of Bacchus, on re- looking extremely anxious—which anxiety

perspiration, that the place unmeutiou-

|.. explained afterward.

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c°ndncted

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friend replied: "Should you jump out of the after a littlo delay, the gentleman made his place

id replied: "Should you jump out of the after a littlo delay, the gentlema iice you mention into an atmosphere like nppearanco at the offico, and in a very quiet, .m \w.u!d fiee/.e to death. mySterioua maimer, asked if he could obtain

tuysterio

a

battle-field of Getty-burg id occupied by our forces with ui exploded Robel the Confederate fortificabe found ft is said not

one-sixth ol the shells thrown by the Rebe's exploded The dead are not yet all buried

to a room, and

condncted to a

private room, making the demand in such

Jiu'^e Hiien WK9 arrested by the military a manner, that one would suppose he de-

guard at Nashville, Tenn.. the other bay, for forcibly seizing and carrying homo a female slave who had run away, lie waa dismissed by the Provost Marshall, with the remark that ths time had passed when negroes could be whipped in this country.

signed committing suicido, but no such thing be merely contemplated matrimony. Upon hearing this very laudible request, the clerk in the office —who happened to be our polite and very affable friend Capt. Ben. F. Reed —immediately granted him every facility for aocomplishing his purpose. The party was then shown a suite of rooms, admirably adapted for tho occasion aud everything speedily arranged

Bio. Boyd was ushered into the presence of tho blushing couple, aud our friend, the Captain, acting as groomsman, the ceremony was quickly and handsomely performed, and amid the roar ot Heaven's artillery, the twain were made one.

A very striking evidence ot tbe feelings of the soldiers of the Union lor our Congressmen Voorhees, was shown Monday afternoon at tbo depot, as the train was about leaving for Indianapolis. A car load of futloughed officers, soldiers and marines from the army of tbe Mississippi were on the train, on their way from Vicksburg, and one of thoir number recogoizing tho placid features of Voorhoes. who was majestically pacing the platform, made known his presence to the occupants of the car, when a Captain of an Ohio regiment got out of tbe car, walked up to Voorhees. and as if about to greet him, asked if his name was Voorhees. A sweet •mile lit up Dan's face, and be answered in the affimative, aud put out his baud as if to exchange shakes, but the officer drew back and told bim he wouldn't shake th$ hand a d—d copperhead and told him ho was & traitor, and if the soldiers had him Vicksburg tbey would hang him. It may be imagined that Voorhees felt chagrined rather at this pleasant greeting, especially as a large crowd of witnesses were looking on upon tbe interesting interview.

The Law—Tke Conspirators. W# died last week Ihe well-known case of Ableman v. JSoetA,wherein the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously decide that a person in custody undef the authority of tbe United States cannot be brought by ha* beas corpus before a State Court, but that it is the duty of tho Marshal or other person holding him to retain his prisoner, and to refuse obedience to the mandate of any other than a United States Court. The publication of this decision has spread confusion and dismay among the disloyal factions who have latterly been conspiring to embroil the State with the National Government. The law and its application to cases arising under the Conscription act were so perfectly clear, that for several days the 'Copperhead presses of New York, which for' weeks previously had been shouting habeas corpus and prematurely exulting in the prospect of a collision arising out of tbe attempt to protect that writ, were hushed into despondent silence. Finally, one of the three or four organs of Jefferson Davis ventured to prist an anonymous communication, laboriously endeavoring to explain away the decision of the Supreme Court and to represent it as inapplicable to cases under the Conscription Law. The other Copperhead papers followed with more or less ingenious efforts in the same direction, and one of them finally takes courage to assert positively that a State Court has the right to interfere in a case where the Supreme Court of the United States denies to it the power.

One and only one plausible argument has been adduced against the decision ef the Court, It is urged, in the first place, that tbe expressions of the Judge must be taken with reference to the case before hin—which every lawyer knows to be true' which wejreadily admit, It is then affirmed that in the case of Ableman v. Bouth the decision of the Court "has refer ence exclusively to an attempt on the part of a State Court to review on habeas corpus the judicial determination of a Federal judicial officer." In other words, it is meant to say that Booth was arrested on the warrant of a United States Commissiener, and that the Supreme Court decided that it was not com petent for a State Court, by writ of habeas corpus te supervise and annul the proceedings of the Commissioners. If it be true that the decision of the Court was with reference to that state of facts,and based upon that ground, then we concede that it would not cover cases under the Conscription act, and that the language of Chief-Justice Taney, which does cover those coses, was merely the expression of his views of the law, andawas obiter dictum Bnt it is not true. The decision of the Court was not so limited and was not based upon the ground alleged.

To the objection as above stated there are two answers, either of which is conclusive. First: A Commissioner is net a judicial but a ministerial officer. The fact that he Is charged with certain quasi judicial duties does not confer on himthe judicial character. He 's tbe appointee of the Court, as the clerk or crier is. The Courts are established under the Constitution by laws of Congress, and the judges are appointed by the President, the constitutional appointing power. The right to appoint other judges cannot be delegated to tbem. Since, therefore, the commissioner on whose warrant Booth was arrested was not a judicial officer, the decision of the Supreme Court could not have.'proceeded on the alleged ground of a want of power in the StateJCourt to supervise the proceedings 'of a Federal judicial officer. In the case of the United States v. Booth, argued and decided with Ableman v. Booth, there was no judicial decision of the District Court, but the reasoningand language of JudgeTaney apply equally to both cases, and may therefore be considered as if they had reference only to the latter ease.

Secondly: It is immaterial whether the com missicner be regarded as a judicial or ministerial officer. Judge Taney's opinion proceeds upon the ground that Booth was held under the authority of the United States and it makes no sort of difference what authority Admit that his decision is to be construed with reference to the facts of the case it is also to be construed, andean only be intelligently understood and applied, by reference to the reasoning upon which it rests, and 'through which it is arrived at. Now it is plain, and is repeatedly declared by tbe Judge, that he denies to the State Court tbe right to release Booth on habeas corpus, or to have him brought before them, not because he is held under judicial process whether warrant of the Commissioner judgement of the District Court but because the authority of the United States, by whomsoever exercised, is supreme, and not to be inquired into by a State Court on aey pretense. It is enough for tbe State Court to know that a United States officer has custody of tbe prisoner. They are thereupon barred from further proceedings. It is a question of jurisdiction. Tho State sovereignty of Wisconsin is limited and controlled by that of the Unitod States, and tbe powers which tbe latter assumo, whether rightfully or not, to exercise, are beyond tbe sphere of a State Court, and in no manner to be investigated by its authority. We quote the language of

Judge Taney: "No State can authorize one of its Judges or Courts to exercise judicial power by habeas corpus, or otherwise, within the jurisdiction of another and independent Government. And although the State of Wisconsin is sovereign within its territorial limits to a certain extent, yet that sovereignty is limited and restricted by the Constitution of the United States And the powers of tbe Gen eral Government and of the State, although both exist nnd are exercised within the same territorial limits, are yet eeperated and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other, within their respec tive spheres. And the sphere of action appropriated to the United Stales is as far beyond the reach of the judicial process issued by a State Judge or a State Court, as if the line of division was tracd Ifij landmarks and monuments visible to the eye." (21 Hoard S. C. R., 515-1C

And again: "The Constitution was not formed merely to guard the States against danger from foreign natiuns, but mainly to secure union aBd harmony at home for if this object could be attained, there could be but little danger from abroad and to accomplish this purpose, it was felt by tbe Statesmen who framed the Constitution, and by the people who adopted it, that it was necessary that many of the rights of sovereignty which the Slates then possessed should be ceded to the General Government and that in the sphere of action assigned to it, it should be supreme, and strong enough to EXECUTE ITS OWX LAWS BY ITS OWN TRIBUNALS, WITHOUT INTKRUPTION FROM A STATE OR FROM STATE AUTHORITIES." (Id., p. 517.)

That disposes of the whole question. Cases subsequently arising, as for instance under the Conscription Act, must be decided on the same principle. The prisoner is in custody under authority of the United States, and that authority, whether judicial or ministerial, civil or military, is supreme is not to be called in question in a State Court is to be judicially inquired into only by a United States tribunal. It was logically in pursuance of this train of reasoning, aBd as the inevitable result of the discussion of the case, upon the facts of the case, that JudgeTaney

finally declared, in the language we have twice before quoted and which we quote once more: "But after the return is made, and tbe State Judge or Court judicially apprised that the party is in custody UNDU THK AITTHORITV or THK UNITKD STATU, they can proceed no further. They then know that the prisoner is within the dominion and jurisdiction of another Government, and that neither the wit of habeas corpus, nor any other process issued under State authority, can pass over the line of division between the two sovereignties. HX IS THE? WITHIN THE DOMINION AND XXCLUSIYX JURISDICTION or THK UNITKD STATES. If he has committed an offense against their laws, their tribunals alone furnish him. If he is wrongfully imprisoned, theirjudicial tribunals can releaso him and afford him redress.— And although, as we have said, it is the duty of the Marshal, or other person holding him, to make known by a proper return the authority under which be detains him, it is at the same time imperatively his duly to obey the process of the U. S., to hold the prisoner in custody under it, and to HEFCSE OBEDIENCE TO THK MANDATE OS PROCESS OF ANY OTHEK GOVERNMENT. And consequently it is his du~ ty not to take the prisoner, nor suffer him to be taken, before a State Judge or Court upon a habeas corpus issuer under State authority. No State Judge or Court, AFTER THEY ARK JUDICIALLY IXKORMED THAT THK JPARTT IS IMPRISONED UNDER THE AUTHORITY Or THK UNITED STATES, has any right to interfere rnith bim, or to require him to be brongbt before tbem."

So much for the law. But mark how unwarily these disloyal papers have disclosed their real object. Why should they be to eager to deny and discredit a decision of the Supreme Court which covers all those questions under the Conscription. Law, and prevents all possibility of conflict between State and National authorities? Solely because they meant and mean that there shall be a conflict, and their rage is vented against this decision because it destroys beforehand tbe pretense for that conflict. They meant to array the State against the Union to provoke a collision on habeas corpus from a State Court to enforce its service against a Pro-vost-Marshal by the military power of the State, knowing that he would be protected by the National forces. This decision of the Supreme Court blocks tbe wheels of that plot. It announces in advance that there is no legal pretext for the habeas corpus, and thu3 destroys the chance of deluding the citizens of the State into the belief that their legal, eonstitutional rights are imperiled.— Hence tbe effort to misrepresent, to put aside, to conceal, the meaning and force of the decision. The effort is useless. The law stands. The decision incontrovertiblv declares it. The Government will enforce it. Let traitors beware how the stand in tbe way. —N. Y. Tribune.

Where the Mob Came from. The following is in circulation: "VOTE or GOVERNOR SEYMOUR'S 'FRIEXDS,' NO­

VEMBER, 1862, Seymour.

Hackervllle 570 Five Feints .813 Coroner's Hook 885 Water street dance house...360 Thirty-three other districts of equal respectability..10,667

Wads worth. 60 68 0 15

1,620

13,664

1,S83

Seymour's majority, 10,981 or more than his entire majority in the State. "These election districts figure on our po lice books as containing two thousand seven hundred and forty-three grogerie9, two hundred and seventy-nine notorious brothels, one hundred and seventy places where thieves and ruffians habitually resort, one hundred and five policy shops, with gambling and dance houses to match, and also em braces the haunts of the murderes, robbers and incendiaries who figured in the recent 'Reign of Terror.'"

A wholesome place for copperhead growth, that. The enormous disproportion between the disloyal and loyal vote is explained by the number of doggeries, brothels and thieves houses. Wherever dens of vice and crime are planted thickest there the copperhead vote is invariably four or five times as large as all others together.

By the following notice, which we

clip from tbe New York Times, it will be seen that our friend and fellow citizen, Charles Ogden Wood, of the 9th Regulars, has been appointed Chief of Ordnance and Artillery on the staff ol Brigadier General Canby, commanding the city and harbor defenses of New York city. Lieut. Wood has been in command of Fort Lafayette for two years past, and we have beard many gentle men who aro well posted in military circles speak of the high estimation in which he is held by his immediate superior officers, especially in bis proficiency in artillery practice. We wish him tbe most eminent sue cess:

GENERAL CANBY's S:TAKK.—Tbe following officers have been appointod as Gen. Canby's Staff: Major C. T. Chri^teuseii and Captain A. P. Fiake, A. A. A Genenls Major Lawrence Kip, A. D. C., ai.d Actiug Inspector General Captaiu Joh Gray A D. C. Lieut. Charlos O. Wood Cjist of Ordnance and Artillery Lieut. H. Cutting, A. D. C.

The Cleveland Herald say a tbat a

man from Brecksville stepped into the Infirmary of that city last Sunday, sod said he wanted a wife. The Superintendent was rather staggered at so novel an application, but finally, as the fellow appeared very much in earnest, and begged him to "trotouthis marriageable stock," asked the women in tbe institution what they thought of it. All de clined to consider a question "popped" ii that unreasonable manner but one, who had rather unplasant antecedents. She was "trotted" out, and the fellow thus addressed ber "I've got seven acres of land out here in Brecksville, five cows, a fat hog, and a daughter, who will be married on Monday. I don't want to lie to you, so I tell you I shall give one cow to my daughter, but I have a heifer about ready to come in, and then you will have five cows all the samo. All I want is three meals a day cooked, but you can eat between meals if you are hungry and three meals a day ain't enough. Now if you want to hitch up, say so..*

The "blushing fair one"—tbat is, she would have blushed if she could—"said so, and Mr. Smith left them to settle the details of this novel arrangement. The happy swain promised to be back early next morn ing with a license. And he kept bis word.Tbe marriage so strangely "got up" was duly and legally completed.

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The preponderance of the number of prisoners in tbe bauds of the Federals, must be very great, if we may judge from the number now being transported to different points in tho West. Geo. Scholfield has been sending those in his hands, to Johnson's Is* land and Indianapolis, and Saturday morn ing he sent 242 more to Inidanapolis, under charge of Major Engle, of his staff, and at -guard of 52 men from the 10th Wisconsin." Theso prisoneis were taken at Vicksburg before its surrender, and bavo been in St. Louis prisons, and are now transferred to Gen. Burnside's Department, and tbe fostering care of Gen. Wilcox.

QfScott & Valentine have a supply of all the various styles of Cider Mills. Call and see them, and at the same time look through their superb stock of agricultural implements.

The Conscription Law. Endows paiog are taken for tbe disloyal nevsp^fers, printed in New York and elsewhere a aid of the Rebellion, to misrepresent the prtrfeions of the Conscription act, to conceal its purpose and neoeesity.and in all ways to inflaae against it tbe prejudices of the ignorant md passions of the wicked. At the momen especially, when the law has been defied aid transiently resisted by an insurrection, ant while the Government is slowly preparing enforce decisively its execution, the organs o' the mob are steadily and insiduously arranjtog tbe materials eut of which to create aether riotous opposition. Tbe weapons in th«r armory meet frequently used, is falsificatiu of the act. Once more, therefore, we tcamine and re-state its regulations.

The pupese of the law cannot be morei considerably nor more impressively declare" than it is ii the preamble to the act itself.Lei those »ho deem it a hardship to be sun moned to th» defence of an imperiled country read and po*]er why tbey are thus summoned "Whereas there now exists in the United States an Indirection and Rebellion against the authority hereof, and it is, under the Constitution of tb» United States, the duty of the Government suppress insurrection and rebellion, to gutrantee to each State a republican form of government, and to preserve the

tranquility and whereas, for these igh purposes, military force is indispensable, to raise aid support which all persons ought willingly contribute and whereas, no service can be more praiseworthy and honorable than that which is rendered'for the maintenance of tbe Constitution and Union, and the consequent preservation of free government Tberefere, be it enacted," &c.

Against the object of the law, therefore, nothing can be urged by any loyal and patriotic citizen and *e appeal to none other.— Let us consider, then,

just cause of complaint in any of its provisions. It enacts, first, that all able-bodied male citizens of the United States, and poisons of foreign birth who have declared their intention to become citizens, between the ages o. twenty and forty-fire, with certain specified exceptions, shall constitute the national forces, and shall be liable to military duty in the service of the United States, when called on by the President. The exceptions, beside those physically and mentally unfit lor the service, are: 1. The-Vice-President of the United States the Judges of the various Courts of tbe United States, the heads of the various Ex ecutive Departments of the Government, and the Governors of the several States. 2. The only son liable to military duty of a widew dependent upon his labor for support. 3. Tbe only son of aged or infirm parent or parents dependent upon his labor for support. 4. Whero there are two or more sons ot aged or infirm parents subject to draft, tbe father, or if he be dead, tbe mother, may elect which son shall be exempt. :f chil

5. The only brother ct children not twelve years old having neither father or mother, dependont upon his labor for support.

G. Tbe father of motherless children under twelve years ofage,depeDpent upon his labor for support. 7. Where there area father and sons in the same family and household, and two of them are in the military service of [the United States as non commissioned officer,musicians, or privates, the residue of such family and household, not exceeding two, shall be exempt.

And, finally, it is provided that no person who has been convicted of any felony shall be enrolled or permitted to serve'.in tbe Fationa 1 forces.

Now, since there iafrequenfoutcry against the law on tho pretense that it ia a law made for rich men, let the foregoing list of exceptions sufficiently attest its thoughtful generosity to poor men, and its parential care for the fatherless.

Tbe forces enrolled are divided into two olasses, the first including all between twenty and thirty-five tho second comprising all the remainder of those enrolled, who are not to be called into service till tbe first class is exhausted. They are subject to draft during two years from the first of this July, and their term of service is during tbe present Rebellion, not to exceed, however, three years.— The number to be drawn from any district is to be estimated with reference to the number of volunteers and military already furnished by the State.

It is further provided that any drafted person may furnish an acceptable substitute in his place, or may pay a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars t9*the Government, to procure such a substitute and this is the clause which is more generally censured, and misrepresented, and misunderstood, than any ether in the law, yet the slightest candid consideration will show that it is just. For, in the first place, it is agreed that some substitute system is necessary. It would be for the interest neither of the Government nor of the community, that every man on whom tbe lot fell should be compelled to go. He may be one whose services are worth far more in the regular occupation, as those of a ship-builder, a machinist, a founder, a gunmaker, and the like. And of coarse the community has no interest in compelling such a man to go himself, instead of sending a substitute. For this aod other reasons which readily suggest themselves, the law adopted the substitute system, and tbe ooh remaining question was: Shall the Govern! ment take the business of procuring subst| tules into its own hands, or leave it to spej ulators and to chance? So far as the Goj ernment is concerned, it is obviously bet that it should choose its own men, payini such as it selects tbe three hundred doll received from the exempt. Does «this any bardshin to the drafted? All exi shows tbat If no commutation is Government, tbe price of substitutes 1 exorbitant. Tbe effect of the "thri red dollar clause" is not to discr against-tbe poor and in favor of tbe to check speculation, keep down the substitutes, and to enable a muc] number to procure substitutes tb tbis provision would be able to. men conld iu any event get substitu ever the price. This clause extend privelege to those of moderate a provision in favor of tbe p»or, the rich.

The numerous sections of tly 1** which regulate the manner of enrollnsntand draft, prescribe tbe duties of officersjke., need not be considered or referred to i/ detail. The main features of tbe act, tbose provisions which are the basis of the conscription system, and especially those which are misunderstood, we have briefly but substantially stated. It only remains to add the 20th section, which is as follows: "And be further enacted. That if any person shall resist any draft of men enrolled under this act into tho service of the United States, or shall counsel or aid any person to resist any such draft or shall assault or obstruct any officer in making such draft, or in performance of any service in relation thereto or shall counsel any person to assault or 067 struct any such officer, or shall counsel any drafted men not to appear at the place of rendezvous, or willfully dissuade them from the performance of military duty as required by law, such persons shall be subject to summary arrest by tbe provost-marshal, and shall be forthwith delivered to the civil authorities, and upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five bnndred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or By both of said punishmeet."

Wherefore, let all loyal and well-disposed citizens keep steadfastly in mind: That the purpose of the law is noble—to preserve the Republic by subduing tbe Rebellion

That the methods of the law aro just and equitable carefully adapted to accomplish itspurpose impartially requiring service from all classes of people, with generous excep' lions in favor of tbe poor

Tbat tbe penalty of the law is denounced against those who in any manner resist or counsel resistance to ita obligations and finally,

That tbe Government deems tbe enforcement of the law at this time essential to the safety of tbe nation, that it stands pledged to execute it at all hazards, and that it will keep its pledge, if neceesaiy, with all tbe military power at its command. It is neither patriotic, nor prudent, nor possible, for aoy citizen or any portion of the people to resist.—Trib une.

The Lafayette Journal claims the

"oldest man in the world" as a resident of Tippecanoe county. It says he was born in 1750, ID the coleny of Virginis, and is now 113 yens old.