Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1863-05-02

              yzi - ? 1 f'ivi-iM-i a? -y.r ty VOLUME riT.TJnBEB';;3;- 'V '-CVS -Vr t 1: frM ; wlthia ilx month 1 SXM afUr th zpl " CFroat tk Akl4 Union. - n. Ioaeat Peroration. Persona who were preasnt At the Democrat ' ic meeting on 8atrUj oSbt, represent the ' tpeech of Mr. McSweeny ane of the richest . oratorical treats they ever enjoyed. Hia per- oratioo was particularly eloquent, and we re gret our inability to give it to our readers as it fell from the lips 'of the speaker. The follow, ing is but an imperfect sketch of the powerful appeal with which the speaker closed his argument. He said : ' ' We hare assembled together, not by the permission merely of our adversaries, not by the grace or faror of our rulers, but by virtue of , the Constitution of our fathers, which secures to us the unalterable right of peaceably a-' sembling together, the right of free speech and " free press, the right to discuss the character and conduct of our servants, the right to de . ' bounce and point out corruption in high plate, and the right to petition the Government ' for the redress of grievances under which we ' suffer. . " ' The Constitution with atlUa compromises ls the political Bible of the Democratic party. Upon this rock have we built our church, and ' against it the gates of hell shall not prevail, over its proud ram)arU the Secession hosts of the rebels shall never clamor, and against its base the foam of Abolition fanaticism shall dash in vain. A Democracy with the proud record of three quarters of a century, can well accord to their silly foes the paltry childish privilege or calling names. The equanimity of no one should be disturbed thereby. But whea they go further, and, presuming too much on the long suffering and forbearance of the peoples, attempt by threats ot violence and bloodshed to check the utterance of the thoughts of freemen, they will discover that - we are not dastards nor Ignoble descendants of those who baptized with their blood and trans- ' mitted to us the priceless boon of liberty regulated by law. The sooner this is learned by the blind advocates Of force, the sooner will there be presented a more formidable front to the Southern foe. . Democrats will assemble will discups will think will speak and have a voice in the attempt to preserve our common country from meeting the fate of those nations whose Ty- . rants crushed out free thought and speech, and which now only live in the musty records of things that once were, but are now no more ' forever. . - . You may imprison the body, but the spirit of man is not bound by chains. The flatterers and sycophants around the throne of good King Canute of the olden time, assured him that the winds of heaven and the waves of the deep were subject to his will ; and the monarch, to teach them a lesson as to the true i limits of kingly power, bade them bring his royal throne to the margin of the sea, and to furnish him with massive chains wherewith to bind th advancing waves. But the wild waters vrere nearing the shore. They receded not before the royal command. They tossed his iron fetters in playful glee, and the afiright-eoed courtiers were glad to rush to the rescue of their monarch andsave him from the ocean's wrath. And the poet, seizing the legend, has beautifully and truthfully said : Tvrsots, in rain ; 1, La rain re traee th wizard ring, la vain v limit Mind'n nn wearied apring : ; y limit Hi What! ean j lull th winged wind asleep t Arrest the rolling world, or chain the deep t JSml the wild wave contemns thy sceptered hand, It rolled nut back when Canute gave command. Nor ean any man, in this year of our Lord, whether roted in the purple garments of Kaiser, Czar, Khan, King, or President, place himself upon the great and boundless sea of thought, and as the heaven-born emotions of freedom take to themselves the form ' and ut-j terance of speech, bind them with chains or fester them with links of steel : nor, at the imperial sway of his puny scepter, bid the wild waves be still They rolled aot back when Canute gave command. Free thought and free speech will break through the dungeon bars which entomb the body will rise from the gloomy , vaults of the lowest and filthiest cell ofFort Warren will scale the battlements and lofty turrets ot frowning Lafayette will catch the first glow of the morning s glad beaut will penetrate and illumine every dark spot where foul oppres- sion is aoing iu cruei worn, ana win nnaiiy triumph over all its foes, for it is a heaven - bora gift of God to man, and therefore cannot - shall not perish.' ' We copy the above extract from a speech - made py , Jonn j. Aicoweeny at wooster, a abort time since. It is certainly one of the .most eloquent perorations ws ever read or heard. A sneaking pack of abolition blood- liounds have got to bunting Mc, and instead - of nminay him, he turned at bay and "squelch ed" the blood hunting thieves. A short time sines these blacks nakes wrote to the State Jour nal that lie. was Van , Buret Abolitionist. This being ft charge of no ordinary meanness - bo wonder that it raised bis ire or Irish, and that he " went in on them" as only JIc can do. -- w-..' Tjfreesi, im eiaie ife. faee tie wLuuti Ting, i f jr limit JtituT SMNSnW tpriitf.T v ; v- ZTh Iaw Alloviss Boldlert to Vote. . , Some of the Abolkioo papers ofthisBUU are lost DOW laboring? to create the imnression that their party alone Is devoted to the Inter ests of oar gallant soldiers; that it alone orie mm m, a . .a . s Ually ravorsa sv iaw asiowing tbem to vote, - mtJ Kerr, the troth is, it was never in lavor - Of such a -law, utU the ctreulattoa of Demo. -iiopapwf US ' army bad been prohibv r ted, aad tb: party jscrews had been applied to eommiasionad racers. A-year ago, the Abo- t litioa majority fa the Ohio Legislature refused i ts mat the law, daimiag tnat U -was ancon- Istitutional, aad - would destroy tha "parity of the ballot box.- -They were not really &d sincerely ia favor of it at the late session, for they -4- kicked it. like a fooOall.-frora one Ilcuas to - the- ether and then- back, again time without aamber, antil jiut-before the adjournment wbswenoagit oltbrm 11 rpocrUicaJly eanxe to Its support to pass it. i-T bey area undertook t9 9tpA4kXtemtxTiS;Tn4ttnbt rjrho intro- Jac& te first trill on the nbiect ! -The Denv .'Cema-Wersltt- rf!ial ffien yur?ert:5 It vfr?a Ihi bezianu;; toxh end, Lbcrriff- Cliht -Cr? t5rrfecsUso sist r-:erve i!.sprtritf la c " JtCi r - -;jt-:7 It is incredible that the people of Boston al low in their city the. weekly publication of such infamous utterances as the following, from the Liberator of April 24th:- No act of ours do we regard with more con scientious approval or - hirher satisfaction. none do we submit more confidently to the tri bunal of Heaven and the moral verdict of mankind, than when, several Tears ago, on the 4th of J ulv. in the Dt-esence of a ereat as- sembly, we commuted to the names the von ' ' m m w stitutioo of the United States, because fin the language of John Quincy Adams) " ths bar gain betwern Freedom and 81avery contained in it was morally and politteallr vicious, in consistent with the principles on which alone our .tvevoiuuon can oc jusuueo, ana cruei ana r t A t 1 , 1 Oppressive by riveting the chains or the op pressed, and pledging the faith 01 freedom to maintain ana perpetuate the tyranny of the master' And should the present bloody struggle end in any compromise . with the South, or in recognizing any constitutional obligations to slaveholders or slave-hunters in the border States, we shall again give that in strument to the consuming fire, and renew our protest against tt as "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. In the court of conscience and before God, it matters not what slaveholding agreements or compromises may be found in the Constitution or out of it, they are all inhuman, unjust and immoral, and therefore nail aad void ; and if a man can retain office,, or be a voter; under the government, only os condition of sustain ing such compromises, then it is certain, if he would not do evil that good mar come, he must relinquish office-holding, and refuse to cast a vote stained with human blood. .His motto is, and must be, as one loyal to right and duty, "No Union wits Si-ATSHOLDtas I" " Man ia more than Conatitation better rot beneath the sod Than be trae to Chnrch and State whilst we are dou bly false to God f Perhaps we err in saying that it is incredi ble. Within the past two years " Loyalty" has become a word of purely arbitrary signifi cation in the mouths of the men who use it for the time. The New York radical papers, which denounce their, political opponents as disloyal, have no word of censure for this Boston paper, but on the contrary they delight in honoring Mr. Wendell Phillips, whose name is printed conspicuously - at the bead of the JMeraior as one of the managers of its finan ces. In the Middle and Western States we hear daily of the seizure of newspapers and the arrest of editors for alleged treasonable sympa thies. We have never seen in a paper published out of Massachusetts a more atrocious article than this, and yet it will pass unnoticed by " loyal leaguers," n n noticed by radical newspapers, who would mob the Boston Courier or Post to-day if either of them should express a sentiment remotely in favor of the destruction of the Union. While the men whom these disunion Abolitionists call disloyal have been the unwavering defenders of Union and Constitution, their ma-ligners are permitted to preach treason in the pulpit, publish treason in their newspapers, and are received with distinguished attentions on the floor of Congress and in the mansions of the highest government officers. The Tribune devoted a.column yesterday to the fierce denunciation of certain suspected traitors. If they were indeed guilty they de serve hanging as high as Haman. But what has the Tribune to say to the above extract from the Liberator f s Here is a bold confession of crime, an unblinking challenge to loyal men to confront and, if they dare, to punish them. What say you, gentlemen of the Loyal Leagues? Do you wish more papers of the lAberator stamp? Is this the kind of liters" tare you approve ? If not, dare you express your minds and denounce these men as they deserve, or are you afraid it might cost yoo a few Abolitionists, votes in the next elections? It is a shock to the moral sense of the world that an officer was dismissed from the service a few days ago for voting a Democratic ticket in New Hampshire, but no word of caution or rebuke comes from the self-styled "loyal" party for this outspoken treason in Massachu setts. Journal of Commerce, The Talk of a Man of Sense. Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, in the last speech he made ia the Senate, at its last session, just on the eve jof its adjournment. made the following reference to the Democratic party. He said: " '- ' .v. v "Now, it seems to me that if we of the pre dominant party were more tolerant of the Op- position, ana insteaa 01 talcing pains , to insult their beliefs and misrepresent their opinions, we should be very careful to avoid any allu sion to them whatever; we should soon disarm that opposition, 1 have been ' from the first of opinion that tne introduction of any meas ure, no matter. how important tt might appear to be in the eves of their mends, calculated to provoke the hostility of the Democratic party and incite it to' opposition, was mischievous to ths highest degree, and that all we might gam by such a measure would oe nothing compared with what we should lose by arous- ing ii to resiSY iu lueir uaroiooioas cooperation with s in the prosecution , of the war is wortn more to tne country, a thousand times over than any measure - we could pro pose, and which would tend to alienate them from us. Is there any manTtvin ho loves his country better than his own hobby, who won Id not be willing and ready to give hp all tbe causer of ditferenoe with that great part v, composing one-half our peo ple, tor ue saae or losurmg us nearcy anq cheerful co-ODeratioa with us in carrvinr-on the wart: Sir, I bad Tather- have the mora) and material aid of the Democratic' party ta this war than all the legislative project that could be hatched in the brains ot a Congress composed entirely v of rafbrmemi)ariuadly Pulsation of its rreat heart knd AS atardv stroke of Us mighty? arm dul4 Ao more to pot u, reueuioa tnan ail the laws we com a possibly pass. I would cheerally .yield all m7 "Fwcetved notions atr ar time lo seen re its aid in this extrcmitin.l with t A I beliefs the unity of the repuLHc "would eoohi U restored, and the old fUg c Tia ost every-1 where more the sabject of veaerckra'aDd still mors ths a-afaccecf ssfy tni trc tio ttia it tier, 'vsJt. I;woaJt i-r ' . i't tra2.;!su' cf I ' 1 1 .rtyVf.ad 1 1?- " rl r '1 't M1( . . I:.. .1 ThM Ccmseriptioa : AtP-YTtzl it , rrts Hade Tot T Ueroe to Jwr.Tiitt Hen I , -'-."v - - - ; 1 Judge Keiley; of Philadelphia, made speech to the Kepubncanj in Jtcaruord, on, Monday" evening, March 23L 1863. The Evening Pre reports the speech. From the Pre wi copy the followings ' - "I am told that the details of that tni-the conscription sua do not please the copper heads, it never was intended to, ow tmiv to catch 90m of them., end. mat them fight. Bat it ill be resisted, say some. Aa true as .there is a Uod in Heaven, utiie law cannot be execn ted without, 1 would march irty of blacJu from the South, .with a bayonet at th baeJc.qf every copperMaa wno ifunna aaempi nretat.' Applause. This IS JO lovely. In the first place, Judge Kelley has no right to say that Democrats the means Democrats when; he says copper-eads) will resist any constitutional law. He cannot deny that they have a right to resist. before the courts in a lawful manner, an op pressive and unconstitutional act. No Demo crat ever proposed any other mode of resistance to any law. But Judge Kelley assumes that .the. law shall be executed, (he makes no exception to legal decisions,) .and assures the freemen of Connecticut that they must go into the army under that act, though it require an army oj black from the South to push them 10 at the point of the bayonet! Here Is " republican ism" ror you, voters 01 Connecticut. You are to be driven by negroes Xfrom the South with bayonet at your back. This is one of tbe phases of virulent, destruct ive Abolitionism. JVew Haven Jieguter. . ' , How the Black Bnakes Got Their Fame. We have been asked the questions: ; "Why do the Democrats call the Abolitionists black snakes? Is it because the Abolitionists first called them copperheads?" We answer. No, for although, as a retort, it would have been just and appropriate, yet the name is suggested naturally by many .historical manifest rela tions. Black is tbe symbol. of evil, falsehood, treachery, and of league conspiracies at tbe dead hour of night, " When churchyards yawn,-And hell itself breathes forth contagion." The devotees of that baleful lodge prefer dark ness to the light, and carry their morbid pro clivity so far as to profess openly their preference for negroes over white men. m In their very hearts affections they cling to the typical color. In the compound name. "Black Re publican" the first name is proper! v applied the second is abused. J So much for the black : but why the snake? Because the same snake was the first known instrument of the Devil on this earth. The earliest serpent of which we have any account having a devil in him, and therefore, undoubtedly being of the true Satanic color like a modern blacksnake, hissed treason, infidelity and contempt of the paramount law into : the too-yielding ears of the first human subjects of government. He deflowered Eden poisoned the human heart by. the infusion of hie own fell spirit spoliated the pare concord and happiness of Paradise itself. Since humanity owes all these calamities to the devil-possessed snake, it is but natural and reasonable, that those of our time, who in the same spirit and by like means are breaking up and despoiling the happiest country and government in the world, should be called by the name of their great prototype, the original snake. Black-snakes is their just name. Something very DisgTisting;, and yet very Significant. Lincoln and wife recently paid a visit to the Potomac Army. A correspondent of For ney's 'Press' has this nauseating account of the affair: 'English penny-a-liners minutely - describe the custom of Queen Victoria on all occasions of her appearance in public. Why not, there fore, give that of the Queen of the White House? Mrs. Lincoln, in height and size the same as her Britanic Majesty, wore a black silk dress, a black cloth; cloak, and black velvet bonnet, garnished inside and out with white flowers. These were embellished by a pair of blooming cheeks, and an air of high satisfaction. Master Thomas dabbed by the soldiers, 'Prince Tom wore a suit of gray. with a blue, military cape, a black Kossuth hat and feathers. The Queen of the White House parted from each commander with a gracious 'You must come and see me General in Washington and after a collation at the anarters of Gen. Slocom rode to the cars with tie President 'Queen of the White House V 'Prince Toml' How do the people like this sort of taller - A national Disgrace. , V : There are some people base enough to seize ith eagerness and circulate stories of every kind, however absurd, which seem calculated to exasperate still more the two sections of the country now in conflict. Here is one, which ' purports to - come from a Wisconsin chaplain, and is sent from Chicago to a paper in Philadelphia: . . -. : h ,. ,: " Mr. Rogers confirms a statement which appeared ia the papers last fall, of the fiendish barbarity of the rebels in Northern Alabama which was so monstrous as to be incredulity. He says: that the rebels aetually-butchered about a thousand Jtlacks to prevent them fall ing into the hands of the' Union army: .Two hundred of them were confined in a large building, and the building fired, and every one Of them burned to death v t 7 v ; - ; - This Is equal to an accohnt lately circula ting. : among the anti-slavery newspapers of England in which a graphie description is giy en of a whipping machine captured by the Federal troop in a Southwestern; JState, : By meant ot a crank (sayethia writer) a number thongs are made to revolve rapidly, armed at their terminafjona with metalie points orbarbs toJacerats the flesh of negroesv Whoever in, rents these monstrous tales can have the grat ifleatioa of knowing that be is iaereasiag ths animosity of civil war at' hotbeV' aadf : amon foreigne rs4oing, all Jbe caa Udegreran make hateful the American people. Jawnt An exenans says caeaaaeis irom tne draft hare been he&rd from, and that they r r in Canada eawin j-wooi fcr" colored t.ilj ' .fTowLit tass us" fc::y Ah&IIiictblj cc-it at tW'Jt vi-. .r. Al; 11;. : - -i ; A ? - 1 r"-'XIai - it. t3t: tlaCIc a-.,..-; ; ..'. ..-,--.-.. -:; : .. v llaayyeara ago we heard , the following dream, tehich has often been related ia'-'iUtuKj tratioo of the character and work of the Devfl. We reptodace it, and the reader can make his owa commente thereon : ; c.;i ; j An old preacher of the Gospel once dreamed that a great conflict had arisen in the country, and after a long and passionate strife of words between the parties, they got to fighting; ' and the battle waxed hotter and hotter, until it be came very bloody and deadly. ' - Una day the preacher was riding through the country, not fat from the battle-ground, where the two armiea were arrated against each other in deadly combat. J; He saw, along a dilapidated fence, lying upon the ground, Beelzebub, the Prince of Devils,, and posse of his sooty imps, fast asleep in ths broiling sun, without a cloud to shade or a breeze to fan tbeat. ' TheDreacher. firm In his faith and virtue,, stopped his horse in ths road: The preacher said i" What are you doing here?" The old Devil replied r 7 "This is -our time to take a little-rest and sleeps' When we can get men mad with. each 'other, and set them to fighting, we have very little to do. Proud and passionate men carry on our work to our en tire satisfaction, , and our. presence and help are very little needed. When iwe once get war started, we have but little difficulty in keeping it ing'J)elxwareian. .; - Tne Indiana Smocraoy. The Democratic State Centnd Committee of. Indiana has called a mass convention of the Democrats of that Suts, to beheld at Indian-1 apolisV-On the 20th day of May next, to take into consideration the present perilous stale of the country. The following is a brief extract from the address, which accompanies the calls ..'v:-0'r -- -; -v; " We exhort you, fellow-countrymen, to come together in that spirit of patriotic desire, and resolve to put aside every sentiment but love for the sacred principles of your Government. Come op aa one man, wah your affections placed upon the Constitution, and incited by a firm resolution that its great muni ments Of liberty shall be preserved for your selves and your posterity forever. Claim all your rights under the Constitution, but claim no more. Assume no obligations unknown to it, but stand forward with the high prerogatives of that noblest of all titles, 'American citizen That is your surest defence. In the language of General Carrington, military com mandant of this district, in bis late address to the people of Indiana: 1 lTh4 ballot-box and open debate mark ajree people. Trjuet tiem.' That which shuns. the light ofday should not be done by you. pomefi aure their vows; reject their test.'.! r their name, whatever your party, see lit Ald paths, and work as you Once did, agreeToJ to disagree up on questions of mere party policy, but ever comitted in the support of ths Government and me uaiion. . . -ITpre. ahont that Xeagne i LasTSaturdav evening about dark, 8 com- pany'of boys were set to work with drums and fifes to drum up a crowd to attend what is called in the common parlance of Abolition papers go and see what kind of a concern it was. Soon after we went in, the boys, which were' the larger part of the crowd, left, mnch to the annoyance of that august-'tJnion'f assembly. A pledge was reported; how many adopted it as their motto, we don't know. It was the first instance in which we ever heard an obligation read to a crowd of. Amer ican : citizens, , pledging their loyalty to : the Government, it may, however, be all right for Abolitionists and Republicans lo take such an obligation, but for Democrats, it is not nec essary. The Democratic party has . always borne true allegiance to the Government. Through a long succession of triumphs, it maintained its integrity and administered ths Government in its original purity. , -- ; ; But now tnat tbe Abolition party is in pow er. 1 wo years or Abolition rule, ano. wnere a a a 1 is our Government? Yes,, the echo answers where? Will "Union Leagues" save it? Will nled?es of "lovaltv" restore it? We wish the editor of the Herald to answer. Democrats, doot you see the idea of these 'T.irii.' - mitAtiniM Bnn't ,nn tMthlt Mil Abolitionists are afraid that the . people are going to dethrone them? They want to deceive you. Look out for the trap. W warn you to beware. It is not your interests, they are caring about; it is not the welfare of the coun try. as they pretend, bnt.it is to gratify, their own selfish desire. It is to secure to them the offices, and then they will secure, the spoils Democrats watehi Jfranm4e Junqutrer. r . Amy.Swiadlera. v Artemoa Ward iav his lU lecture, lets drive at the array thieves ia thai stylet , With a desire lb benefit the young by holding up to them the infarsous career of a no torious thief, he had thought of lecturing on John B. Floyd, who. when a mere boy, stole hia grandmother's knitting needles and sold them for old steel f who when in Washington, stole everv thin he could lav his hands upon, and would have stoles Mr. Buchanan's character, had half a chance offered itselt : f But on reflection1 saidjthe lecturer, t occurred to me that we; had Just as ; vile thieves "here at the North, who claim to be inUasely interested in the welfare of the Star Spangled Banner, and yet onless tbey are closely watched they wouldjeteal every rag of Clothing the Goddess of Liberty lias in the world; and charge the American. Eagle fifty cents night lor a roosfJ ing. piacf V Steal? , Tbey Would, steal a postage stamp from . frorira dead negro's -eye. Procrastination is the thief" of time but give the arroyjswindlers a chasoe, - aad ; they will steal procrasUpaUon.., ,, TbiXZbrts cf tia Heputilciun ta Carry ivThe ChicagojWssvin' aa e4itoria! .on the recent tdorloua yktorr. of the iDeraecraeyvof that' cifjri tnakea the toUowtng.remark Ute Terence to the- effort of ie Bepablicaae "to carry their ticket? Hiji'- ''ftUntll the'middle of tbe afternooe of Tues day, the eonfidrnce jpf. the Abolition - partieanf inoverwhelming success atthis election . was touiles. .Wafers were tnad that Hr; Bryan would be elected -by LJDOO majority and other wereTfreeiy, offered, nd.:,eepted that be would hre;03, majrityi.Te attrihnts much of thie vwonSIanc tb-Ai knowlaJje-hy those who felt U rf. cm'.r" plated frauds al ceXshicU. as il.srr' irs tliow, .rrcra ,exUn tlvsly eerpetrate L & .'. tbionizl?.-. c..i cf , wwa :atsJci5t of-the t: . ';o- -3 c hnnJ.-cJ czsr- VjsC 7 . . . .. t to - - - - - - - ,: - . ..- - -., ' .; ' ". - ' .. ' . V failure characterizing the successive months of its tedious duration. U becomes patriots, as we have so Often before urged, to cultivate pa- tience, ana earnesuy aerote tnemseives to saving the Government from destruction.' How to do it is the question. The reply is found in reference to each individual citizen in hia own sphere; and. personal responsibility for personal conduct must determine the course of every war. '' The work Which the citizen has to do at home is another and a different work from that which the soldier has to perform in the field." It is one of thetrorst heresies of the day which teaches that we .have committed tbe fate of our nation to the military power, and that we have nothing to do at home ' but to sustain that power, ' The same heresy has destroyed nations before, and if it should become universal here, would destroy our own country. f We have other duties to do aside from preserving and pushing forward ourmilitary-organizations.' We have other work' to do besides making war. However important, however vital to the. national life may be that department of national duty, it remains nevertheless true that there are other equally , vital duties, other equally important subjects of patriotic - labor. It is - madness to teach- that when the ship is drifting on rocks there is no danger from fire; that when an enemy is board ing tbe vessel at tne bow, it is unnecessary to watch' the helm and save the ship from going o the breakers. : The rebellion is not our on ly national danger. It is not certain that if the rebellion is crushed we shall save the Am erican Union, and the Constitution which makes us a nation.'-. Eternal vieilence -is the duty of the patriot. War times are the dangerous times for national life, from other caus es than the open enemy. Hence it is a terrible error which men make who would have all other patriotic and personal duties absorbed in the oneduty of sustaining the war. Hence u is mat tne ciergy maice a grand, almost a fatal error, who lay aside the ordinary duties of the clergy, forget for the time ihe ordinary province of tbe church for the sake of devoting their force to aiding in the war. Hence it is that politicians make an unpardonable error who say that we have nothing to do with ihe cource of the Administration 10 this . or that matter, that we ought to subject all pub-' 11c and private rights and remedies to the one idea of sustaining the Administration in its efforts to crush the rebellion.--Journal of Com merce. ' - vr- ' Good Advice to the Abolition Leaguers. 1 ne r ew x one Ann, a paper that has supH ported Lincoln and his war policy thoughout. in noticing tbe late demonstration of the office holders and other unconditional supporters of the present state of affairs, makes some capital suggestions to the Union Leagners, which we can scarcely hope, however, to see adopted. It esjs: . . -r . . : ; - r - ' In our peregrinations around the stands, we did not discover any signs of an amendment to the pledge similar to that proposed by the Sun. We presume such a proposition was ruled out oforder, inasmuch as the ground has already been covered by the Conscription Bill. . If our proppsition to so' amend tb'eir pledge 'as to insert aconditio'n that .each "member, of the League enlist in the army, is to be voted down, oe would offer another proposition that hereafter, at every meeting qf the Loyal. League, 'recruiting booth be put upt and some of the distinguished military officers, or military orators,' be detailed to the business of recruiting. In this way our "noble army or tnarfyrs"will see a practical object in meetings that hitherto have exhibited a large amount of patriotic bunconile. Should this proposition aiso tan, we wouia then sug gest that the leaguers resolve themselves into a Committee of the Whole, and expend their funds in providing for those whose actual loy alty inspired them to enter the: army . for the avowed purpose Of putting down the. existing rebellion." So far, we have seen "no real benefit growing oat of these Loyal League 'movement; and if the unconditional "loyalty" of tbe leagners Is only an expression of opinion, we fail to see the utility of so many public pow wows. It is well known that Our soldiers have fought, bled and died in t he cause of oar. country, and others are ready to take their places, but the ranks will never" be filled by enthusiastic recruits, until these loyal, leaguer untie in tome specific plan of enrolling, men to ; re cruit the thattefed regiment already in thcjteld; The Attack upon Charleston to be Post poned lor Several weeks. A special dispatch from Washington to the Hew York Wortd, says a partial . revolution haa been effected in the ordinance bureau of the Navy Department, in consequence of the failure of the attack on Charleston, and new instructions have been.; issued respectipg the armament of iron-clads, not only of those at Port Royal, but of those now building Lab lgren guns are to be removed, and an entirely new : thirteen inch gun, .capable, of. using seventy-five pounds of powder at a load, is to oe substituted. .This is to be done before the attack on Charleston is renewed. By means of this change, a single effective shot may be relied upon to breach Fort Sumter. It also may be effectively bombarded . at .it much greater distance. New guns are "now in process of construction, but it Is believed several weeks will elapse before they ean be pat in a sufficient number of monitors to permit the renewal of tbe attack ' on" Ch arleston. " It was rumored at one time that Ericsson protes ted against sending his iroa-clsd into collision with tha Jbrte(t- Charleston with no better armament than they ' carried. , At least, the necessity, of a change is . admitted t and acted upon at the Navy Department. . ' '. The'-Prali:.;..; ;,' -: v We have become h eartily -. tired ?J of .reading the lie of ths Abolition leaders about the Conscription.' One day they declare it will not be en! forced. -The next day. perhaps, all arrange ment aj-eaearly completed and the work of nabbing men about to commence A we un- derstand the law, it cannot be ifprced until ifte the lt of Jalv. .. Younff men are anxious to know how to eepe it and we. would., suggest to them the propriety of each marry bra Gat" who baa $300 in ready money, Qur Abol itkm rnAsters demand only our money or nn. ' It is ihe "same "demand -that has been md by'robbersin ill eges 0 the world. y-p;; y-v 1 11 "1 ! m il i-i ini l- ,!We are In constant recript ?of.;lettera -from I aoidLers in the army.ocnt!2.ini.n of the; cruel and rsrti! v?T!dact of odeerv vrhich ws do not twiULh. I sc" sse it" would enly add to the severity wia wbica they "are tiow. t.cit:J era Jtr 1 put oc'ra (utT-tj.toT. czzrert thetzl'lrry h " 3 i ll ! .: - - - - 1 .-'- - - 1 e .'.'j sSi.j - w 1 ' '- - . -. --. - ' - ' fWhlle the eysnliof the war go on, nnder this or that ' manaremen V with failure after - ; Popularity cf VanaAdlgnaa. ' ; - Thia gentleman i immensely popular & his owa State. The following description of a' pleasant little scene is given by a'eorrespon-dent of the New York jEprm; ; " - -- " A tremendous Democratic meeting was held ia BaUvia last weak.' Speeches were made by VsJlandigharo, -Pendleion and Whit. The enthusiasm was intense. W learn from the Clermont Sun, that at the" conclusion of Mr. Yallandigham's speech; two yonng Misses of fourteen M ws Kerr and Miss Eliza- Bannisterstepped upon the platform -and presented Mr. V. with two bottles of wine, and a large, handsome iced cake (made with their own hands,' without parental aid or advice its surface bring decorated withvgetiuine Butter nuts. j.t was accompanied with an excellent address, extremely well read by Miss Kerr. Mr. Vallandigbam returned his heartfelt thanks and deep gratitude to the fair donors lor timr handsome present, and kind consid eration of his efforts for the salvation of his country , and took hia seat amid tumultuous applause.. . j. . v ' ProclaTnation Against Butternnt Trees; The Republicans do not like the Butternuts. and several persons have been arrested 1nr wearing breastpins made out of those obnoxious nuts. Republican hatred - of them has become so extreme they will not permit their children to eat them, and they are inclined to question the loyalty of Nature for "permitting them to grow. We understand that the Union Leagues have resolved to do their Lest to remedy the disloyal practice of the earth io producing these traitorous trees: and to thin end they will procure President Lincoln to issue a Proclamation to cut down and cast into the fire all such trees before a certain date. Persons failing to comply with this proclamation will be arrested and punished for treason. . as ik win oe ueia that only traitors will permit Butternut trees to grow upon their premises. Accurate Firing of the Bebels. As our Monitors came, within close range of Fort Sumter, writes a correspondent, they found that the channel had been accurately "buoyed out" by the rebels; so that, as soon as a monitor reached a certain point in the channel, she was greeted not by a single shot. but by a terrific, broadside from one or more of tbj enemy's forts. Thus it was demonstra ted that the enemy had so practiced and trained their guns by these bonys and other channel marks, that their fire was not only terrific, but deadly accurate.. Imagine our iron-clads subjected to such a well-trained fire from Forts Sumter, Moultrie, Beauregard, Wagner, Johnson, and an iron-clad fort near Moultrie, name unknown, and from powerful batteries lining each side of the channel, and but a faint idea can be formed of the fearful test to which our fleet was subjected. Besides, the enemy bad so well calculated their distances, that the fuses of their shells were of such a length that t hese missiles burst with the same precision Over and around- the "monitors,1" enveloping them, as it were, in a continual spray and mist, which interfered materially with their operations. . - - ' - ' 1 " mm ' " , . -. ., - Starving the South.. ' -.-A special Waehiogtpii correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazett talks about the return , of the insane idea of "starving the South." He thus concludes: . It cannot, therefore, but be as fatal a delusion now as it was in 1861, to base hopes upon the miseries produced by the blockade instead of the bayonet j or to depend upon subduing the rebels by starving them in their ' homes, instead o routing them on the battle-field. There. can be no more dangeious symptom than the recurring expressions of i belief that if we "can now only hold our own a few months' the rebellion ' must fall of its own weight. A people -who - have ' accom pi ished what the South' has in the last two years, is not to be starved out is not'Iikely to succumb merely from being severely ; let alone is not to be subdued; in short, save by equal pluck and superior endurance on the battle field. Fighting, not starving, is to win ths battle and ena the war, if the, victory and the end are- to come at all. - ' - ' . ' BogTii Patriotism: ; . " "We say to our brave countrymen that our wisbeevour prayers, our purses, and f need be our blood, shall be given to sustain. you in your places :. of peril-" Addre- of certain Member of the Ohio Legislature to the soldier. " "Our prayers that is good. We exceedingly doubt if any on e of the signers of the address could eay the Lord's Prayer if his life depended upon it. If need be our blood" That is excellent. When will a better time come than now. Is the conscription- an ' evidence of tbe "need be." Bah 1 hear these people talking of shedding' their blood. Not as much of their blood willflow in - this . war, as would stain a cambric handkerchief, unless it flows from a dull razor, - or a moscheto bite. The old Pharisee rdivi Plam Dealer. . r ? nntOated ITotea. - . . It should be understood by all that TJ sited States Treasury-notes, from which : any part equal to a tenth: has been removed, will not be redeemable at its face. It ought also to be understood that any mutilation, however trifling, destroys the currency Of these notes." If the smallest particle of the print is gone, or the not ts even slit ever so little, it must he sold to the brokers at a. Jiscount, which is usually heavy. People, therefore, should .be " very careful to scrutinize 'every "one of these 'notes that are offered to them. ; As they are uneor-. rent, a person "Offeringhem '"knc'wiiigly , ub-: ecta himself to "indictment for fraud," and may be criminally roetcatedIauisville Jour V 'Tacts for theYeopIe. ; The Abolitionists In Coogreas voted down. Or refused to accept : v : The Crittenden Compromise; ..:"" The Border State Compromiser ' j MfK Douglas' Compromises iBigUrs propoitiea- to submit theCritteh den Compromise to sv rote of the .people, and i Adam Ctompromi? 2?. isj-urri i x.jrno man forget these aetat a i r-t "-Zifi ii'nn ..." USH. iilMiimj;,'jr.g) w4f Will you come iatamy; Tazlov said the Srider to theFlr 'f .a .-- t j -f vf? Will you come lotos the- TJnkhrI.crra? : .V - ' A t 1' - a . . . w - 1 say tae A.coi;.ioni vj ine.iemocTaw - t Once in a.whi2e the djd U ece-sf-T, r lis Abolitions tacatehat-?.; Uown ia Jt. ecy tley call thei C '?S rcAt'e 1 - ' sr" . . - ; . . ...It:: - -i ' A " I '.. - . " -.-'IV'-; --iv T"" " ; r- z - a.-- At last, after a suspense 01 hve mosths, the Greeks bars mad a choice1.' evidently at tL suggestion or under the laflaefic of Xngland, . ib me person 01 tne , protiierHD-iaw cf lae Prince of Wales.r The young gentlemen, who is to reign under the tide of George, the First of Greece, ia the ; brother f Alexandra, the young lady who married the Prince of Wales 00 the luth or March. He was aerenteea-year old at Christmas. t Lik Prince Alfred h is a cadet ia the navy of Denmark, not f England. He was brought up in the1 Luther , an faith, but would probably not make much objection to jjecoming a. member of the Greek Church, Inasmuch as his second sister, Maria- 8ophia-Frederica-Dagnerr will .probably- become the wife of the Ceseravitch,' heir to the throne of Russia and most change her taith-previously. ": The new Xing of Greece, who will be eighteen: year old at the .close., of this year, la called Christian- V unam-rerdinand- Adolphus-George. nominally a Danish prince. by his father's baring been adopted by 'the Parliament of Denmark, he really is thor oughly, German by . birth-and blood- -'The trreeks, then, have cast .off one uerman ruler" to obtain another. The nation expelled a Bavarian prince, and must take op a 'prince of the petty house ofSchleswig-Holsteia-iJonder-bourg-GlttcksbOurg: z ; , - Life in fJrenaanv. ' Mr. .T. Boss Brown, in a letter from Frank fort on. the Maine, thua summed np the' pecu liarities of 'Europe : ' ,',, Everything here has a spasmodic 'tendener. One week is the same as another, and so of months and years, allowing a small variety foe. . the seasons. There is no progression as in California. People become stagnant at the age of thirty; at forty they become pusseyend waddle like ducks; at hfty they become bald-headed and apoplectic, and carry their heads in their hands to keep their brains cool t - At - sixty an arm or 1 leg gives way, or has to be dragged along or nursed; at seventy tbey take little hand-carnages, and get rolled about the public promenades by servant in livery; and at eighty or ninety tbey get out of breath, and help to make vegetable for new geaeraUona. At this time the sun rises aad sets exactly once a day, for three hundred, and sixty-five days in the year; the town-clocks toll the quarter hours and hours; the. police mount guard at the gates and salute the passingfBeers; the soldiers hug and kiss the servant girls every evening in the by-ways and the alleys; old-burghers take their afternoon stroll eround the glacis and drop in at their regular beef houses, where they sit for hours gossiping over the affairs of -the city; children go to school and back again with their satchels oa their back, and in tbe course of time go to business and gradually merge into old fogies" like the rest of the good citizens and so wag the world in Germany. :. t' .: -: .v -.- h r : : .. . , Absalom'i ; threrd, . , . .v The French journals give the fotl er rious paragraph: . .. ' r A strange discovery has iac been made by. Major Pa ppazoli, 01 : Bucharest the sworil which belonged to Absalom. The blade has" oh one side the following-verses, traced in Hebrew .characters; "Present from Geestfr, ; to" Absalom, eon of David Jeho, Jeho." On the same side is engraved the image of the hexagonal seal of David, and on the other some characters the meaning of which ha not yet been explained. On the corresponding place to. those of the . Hebrew characters, and on the opposite side of the blade, are the words,' en- - graved in gold, "Titu acceptt ex Jerueatent" This sword had a handle in gold, representing" at tbe upper part a warriors bead covered with . a helmet, and joined by a chain to a dragons' head which formed the hilt. The old monk: who was the posessor of the weapon, procured it from a Janizary, into whose hand it Cell r during the disturbfncea at Constantinople in e t m. m -" 1 ia it "' Lout, in a moment or oisiress ne soia me scabbard, which was, he says made of a kind of serpent s skin, and mounted In ; gold; " The ancient origin of the blade Is prorvea by a man ufacturer s marie, traced in bemetic cnarac- ters, : - -..a: , . The tT. 81 Loan - in 1. It appears by the late foreign news that tp American merchants Capt. P. B. Fofit,erf Boston, and Mr. W. H. AsrtxWALt, ' ot 2?ew York had arrived In London, commissi6oe"t to dispose of TJ.'S bonds in the market," The Times city article, referring to these gentle- men, says : ,. , :; y, . . " Tt was underr tood that they weT7nslre'cte4 to dispose -of 2,000.000 - of the 6, per eet.' bonds with which they are furnished, and they have also authority to negotiate a further suss of X10,000)0aioX20U)Q0,Q00. .Tha Commissioners in question are expected, it is also said; to employ part of the X2,000,000, which they are instructed positively to dispose of, in buy ing up the gunboats now building xnglaad for the rebels, . TheFederallGovernment has made. a general effort, 4 through tbe presev ,Uf strengthen., the charfce of the proposedf loan begotiations by simultaneohs represenlstioni ia all parts of the Union,-that the war Js bow, undoubtedly, to be brought to -close mrth- with.,.. --c . 15 f.v Harder of a . Husband. A man named James Brooks -was murdered a weeK or two since ai -iariiarxon eounxy, New Jerseyf. audthe -ease,-aythe Newark ArfernfT;--ttmi8es to be one. of - the most remarkable w all the annals of crime, as rhi son-in-law aad. hi wife, are implicated in tb : murder." " According to one account, the wi;e r met ber husband at night'when oi' tU 'wa'r'-home ' While talking with hi wife thcm : stepped behind bis tuber audi knockedhinX-down.'' The wife then handed a kaifa ta the son, with which h cut his father's" throaU- Both mother and ton dra'rsi ; the U4j to '4 ditch, where: they attempted' to tide iu i lThe only 'difference between Xerxes raaf; -. LtJcoL3t is, the former attempii to hnrl. th highest tnocutalo' into the sea; while the lat- ter fiatftre himself that to will be etle csstj v down"tb Constftntioriil .l!2!trL cour- ',-fhtV?S over, the beaij;cf'twc:ty ulli'vte.ol-s ' peoj Ie.- One will be abct as n ece? al a . r Iba cier.v Every cc-ntTy-ri-t ts camced.. ' with .cue Tool ruler. : An;ci".ca raw La hai.' ;v i:'crtl: r;rhrelJXlt,-:i . fir.:. . t!3 :;::,.;,.x:."3tl : men i.i c- rf t f-;.. lyt under a L: T cf trr? .. tock tbe c : -'.:. . 1 -err tniinthac - ; hcTsr.-'jt : .:c--.:?.. 3 C, t-c.:y t-t-.:. and original sin. M - - f