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V What Shall Wo Io? j
(io on! . , j
.(io right forward for the right, for
principle, for Democracy !
' Go right on for the preservation of
A 1 Y il ? A 9 A At
me lA'iuocmuu urgumzation oi tnis
country. . t
March on to Louisville. Let the
Democrats of the United States, who
are disgusted with the trickery,
treachery bargain and sale shouldered
upon them, at Baltimore, stop not by
t ho wayside to indorse a life-long op
ponent of Democracy or to kneel and
kiss the hem of his his dirty political
garment, but go or send their brave,
true, unflinching representatives to
Louisville, there to nominate Demo
cratic candidates upon a Democratic
platform, that the Democrats of the
country may rally to their support as
they nil lieu to the support or Demo
? r.itic candidates in the timo of war,
:j thoo who under the nameof loy---:
fon!inj tlicnrc!vcs rich,
ICindIo the prairie nrcaU
Sound the alarm I ' r.
Let every Democrat look well to the
situation, and hesitate not to step three
Kaces to the front In this the greatest
our of ilanger the Democratic party
ever knew.
Can it be that Democrats who, for
years, so kindly encouraged us in bat
tling for Democracy, standing earnestly
in opposition to military usurpation,
tyranny, corruption and Republican
misrule, are now willing to be sacrific
ed for the benefit of a few thieving
dishonest, indicted politicians, whose
j headquarters are in the city of New.
i York, and who livo only to steal, put
i up political games and rob the people
i or their earnings ? !
I Is it any part of Democracy to sub-
mit to Republicanism ; to embraco that
I which every Democrat in -this country
knows to be damnable; to remain idle;
aid to give up the contest after years
I of earnest work to defend Democratic
I nrlncinles.
! Have the Democrats of the United
! States beeome the cowards, the lickf
' spittles, the dirt eaters, the office-hun
j ters, the uniters of everything mean
! and dishonest for the sake of office, as
j has so often been charged by Republi-t
! cans by the very men who now ex
i pect to receive Democratic votes, where-
j by they may be elevated to power. j
! In no other way can the Democratic;
-organization of this country be kept
1 up, or the spirit of Democracy preserve
I od for the future benefit of the people,
i than by a meeting of Democrats, a
pledging of support to each other, and'
' a determination (o nominate and sun-.
port for office only those who are Dem-,
,t roi k cn.f o 1 1 '
times, in all nlaccs and under all dan-
i gersand attempts to bribe or coax them!
I from an honest discharge of theirduiy.l
j Let the Democrats of this country bet
s in no haste to commit themselves toi
1 Greeley. Another candidate- will be;
placed in the field. There w.ili yet bd
t a chance for men to contend for prin-j
: ciple. Let those who are tired of bat-;
! tling for principle and the right give;
.' way. Let their places be taken by
! others. The man who defends- his;
! 1 A Al It
I principles is ten-limes more io ou u
i mired and indorsed than he who for
isakesthem.
All over the country papoi-3, hereto
j fore Democratic, have been bought or.
forced to support Greeley; but the peo
; pie long since learned to think for
themselves, and though thousands of
J newsnancrs mav be forced to do tha
I which disgusts their editors, there are
Democrats in the country who never
will support Greeley, who will never
be parties to this deep humiliation ami
Democratic disgrace, and who will, un
less a chance be given them to vote for
a Democratic candidate, withhold their
votes and have nothing to do with this
murder of liberty and Democracy, in
which the Baltimore convention was
so unanimously engaged. ' '
Senator "Wilson An Important
Ixitter.
The following letter from Senator
Wilson explains itself:
' . NxTrcK, Mass., July 21).
J. O. ihtlver. Uta., State Journal,
. Madison. Wis.:
My Dkau Shi : The mail has just.
brought me your note and extracts
cUpied from newspapers purporting to
Ikt speeches made by me.-. In answer;
to your inquiries I have to say that
they, and all thoughts and words of a
like character which have appeared in
the papers, are pure inventions, wicked
forgeries, x and absolute , falsehoods.
Never have I thought, spoken, or writ
ten those words nor anything resem
bling them i nor anything that the
most malignant sophistry could torture
into those words. I could not have
done so, for they are abhorrent to ev
ery conviction of my judgment, every
throb of inv heart, every aspersion of
my sou!. - ;
. Born in extreme poverty, having en
durcd the hard lot the sons of poverty
aro too often forced to endure, I. came
to manhood passionately devoted to
the creed of human equality. All my
life I have cherished as'a bright hope,
and held and avowed as a living faith,
the doctrine that all men, without dis
tinction of color, race, or nationality,
should have complete liberty and exact
equality of all the rights 1 -asked for
myself. My thoughts, my records, my
len, my votes, have been cbiisecrated
lor more than thirty-six years to hu
man rights. !
In the Constitutional Convention in
Massachusetts, .in eight years service
in her Legislature, in more than seven
teen years service in the Senate of the
United States, in thirteen hundred
public addresses, in the press, in speech
es and writings that would fill many
volumes and make thousands of pages,
I have iterated and reiterated the doc
trines of equal rights for all conditions
of men. . , - f
Is it not, my dear sir, passing. strange
that partisanship should so blind men
to a sense of truth, justice, and fair play
that they could forget and print abhor
rent sentiments, sentiments insulting
to God and man, and forge them upon
ono whose life has been given- to the
cause of equal rights at home, and
whose profound sympathies were ever
given to the friends of liberty of all
races and nationalities abroad ? ;
Yours truly, Henry Wi utax. j
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Fnim The New York World,
1S63.)
General Grant.
.What lie Is IBs Great Qualities-Am
Genius Pre-eminent Among all Ven-
. erals His Heroic Determinutioh-
Sureness of Judgment dct dcJic.
General Grant's history should tach
us to discriminate better than J we
Americans are apt to do between glitter
and solid work. Uur proneness to run
after demagogues and s pouters may
find a wholesome corrective In the
study of such a character as his. The
Qualities bv which treat thinirs are ac
complished are hero seen to have no
necessary connection with showy and
superficial accomplishments. When
the mass of men look upon such a char
acter they may learn a truer respect for
themselves and each other; they are
taught by It that high, qualities are
consistent with the simplicity of taste, I
contcm
t f r ;irH(lr, find pz unn ort
t
Ulysses Grant, the tanner. Ulysses
Grant, the unsuccessful applicant for
the post of City Surveyor of St. Louis,
Ulvsses Grant, the driver into that city
of his two-horse team with a load of
wood to sell, had within him every
manly quality which will cause the
name of Lieutenant General Grant to
live forever in history. His career, is
a lesson In practical democracy ; it is
a ouiet satire on the dandyism, the
DUDDvism. and the shallow affectation
of our fashionable exquisites as well as
upon the swagger of our plausible, gUb
tongued demagogues. Not by any
means that erreat qualities are incon
eistent with cultivated manners and
fluent elocution ; but that such super
ficial accomplishments are no measures
of worth or ability.
General Grant's last brilliant cam
naisrnset the final seal upon his reputa
tion. It stamps him as the superior; of
his able antagonist as weli as or ail com
manders that have served with or un
der him in the great campaigns of the
last vear. it is not necessary io sign-
lice any part of their well-earned repu
tations to his. Sherman and Sheridan
deserve all that has ever been said in
their praise ; but there has never been
a time since Grant was made Lieu
tenant General, when anybody but
Sherman, on one side, could have been
classed with him. Since Sherman's
bold march through Georgia, and his
capture of Savannah and Charleston,
there have been many who, in their
strong admiration of his great achieve
ments, inclined to rank him-as the
greater general of the two. i That judg
ment, we take it, is now reversea ny
the court of appeal; not by dwarfing
the reputation of Sherman, which suf
iers no jusi aoaienieui, uut uy
nansion into trrander proportions of
that of Grant. j 1
Grant stands pre-eminent among- all
the generals who have served in this
war, in the completeness of his final
results. He has owed nothing to acci
dent; and, both in the West and the
East, he has accomplished the most ar
duous things that were to bo done,5
The great thing in the West, without
which the rebel power could never have
been broken in that vast region, was
the reopening of the Mississippi ; the
great thing in the East, the taking of
the rebel capital. Richmond was the
right leg of the rebellion, and the Mis
sissippi river its left. Both were coii
tested by the rebels with a full appre
ciation of their value. The resistance
was, in both cases, powerful and obsti
nate enough to put the most heroic
tenacity of the most indomitable mind
to a proof sufficient to test its quality.
Gen. Grant has exhibited the utmost
strength of will of which the highest
type of manhood is capable. The de
fences of Vicksburg and the defences pf
Richmond were both deemed impreg
nable, and were defended with a pro
portionable confidence and obstinacy ;
but they both yielded, at last, to Grant's
matchless persistence and unequaiea
strategy. And, in both cases, he not
only took the long-contested positions,
but compelled the surrender of the
whole force defending them. Nothing
could be more clean and complete, even
In imagination, than Gen. Grant's
masterly execution. He did not
merely, in each case, acquire a position
which was the key of a wide theatre of
operations ; he did npt merely beat or
disable the opposing force ; he left no
fragment of it in existence except as
prisoners of war subject to his disposal."
If anybody is so obtuse or so wrong
headed as to see nothing great in Gen.
Grant beyond his marvelous tenacity
of will, let that doubter explain, if he
how it has happened tnat. since
Grant rose to high command, this
quatity has always been exerted in con
spicuous energy precisely at the point
on which everything in his whole
sphere of . operations hinged. There
has been no display of great qualities
on small occasions ; no expenditure of
herculean effort to accomplish objects
not of the first magnitude. It is only a
very clear-sighted and a very compre
hensive mind that couict always tnus
have laid the whole emphasis of an in
domitable soul so precisely on the em
phatic place. How, if he be not a gen
eral of the first order of intellect, as
well as of the most heroic determina
tion, does It happen that in assigning
great and brilliant parts to his subor
dinate commanders, he has never, when j
the results of his strategy were fully
unfolded, appealed in the picture exf
ceptas the central hgurer However
it may seem during the progress of one
of his great combined campaigns, it alf
wavs turns out at last, when it readies
that completeness and finish in which;
he contrives to have his campaigns
pnd. that we see him standing in the
foreground, and that the grouping is,
always such that the glorjr of the other
generals instead of eclipsing his own
gives it additional lustre.
It is this sureness of judgment which
sees precisely where lies the turning
point; which sees precisely whataro
the objects that justify the utmost
stretch of persistence ; It is this ability-
o take in the wnoie neia oi view m
ust perspective and due subordination
of parts, that is the raarK oi a superior
mind. General Grant has taken out of
the hands of all critics the question
whfith.r it beloners to him. He has won
his prpatest triumph over the most.
skillful and accomplished General on
the other side: over a General who
foiled him long enough to prove ma -
1th,
great mattery of the ; art of war ; arid
the completeness of whose defeat is a
testimony to Grant's cenius such as a
victory over any other General of the
Confederacy, or even an earlier victory
over Lee himself could not have given.
you will i measure him by the magni
tude of the obstacles he has surmount
ed, by the value of the positions he has
gained, by the fame of the antagonist
over whom he has triumnhed. by the
enlevements of his most illustrious co
workers, by the : sureness" with which
he directe hi3 indomitable energy to
the vitals point which i the key of a
vast field, of operations; or by that su
preme test or consummate aDiiity, me
absolute completeness-of his results,
and he Vindicates his claim to stand
next after 'Napoleon and -"Wellington,:
aihong; th;e great soldiers of this coun-.
try, if noc.on a level with tne latter. .
IVTodot. OrVcley 4TTrsoltirQ.
V-
t u y lux new-issuo Greeleyites.
They can- be used as original In -any
township wherethe circulation of Gree
ley's paper ten years ago would have
been considered a sufficient cause for the
tarring and feathering of a minister of
the gospelij
: WitEitEAs, The millennium .has
dawned and the wolf is lying down
with the lamb, and the Hon is eating
straw like'an ox, and the abolitionists
and secessionists march under the same
flag, and the radicals and r rebels walk
arhi-in-arrh, and the free-traders and
protectionists are cheek-by-jowl, and
the Irish and the negroes eat out of the
same dishy and Horace Greeley and
Jeff Davis sleep in the same bed, and
the sucking child playing on the hole
of the asp,! and women vote and ride
a-straddle.'and everythirtgis lovely and
the1 goose hangs high ; therefore, " ' '
: Pesolvedi 1st, That inasmuch aS the
time has eome for all men to eat dirt,
and turn somersets, and no man thinks
wiat heays or believes what he
thinks, we unanimously recognize the
absolute equality of men, including
negroes, women ana umnesc; tnat we
believe a I mule's ear as short as a
horse's, and that the leopard can change
his spots, and that the negro is a man
and a brother, and having always fa
vored his admission to the ballot box,
e now welcome him to the social
circle,,- having, something of an idea
thai all the world was born of a mon
Icey, that things are not what they used
to be, and that there is a great deal of
upsjde-downed-ness and downedside-
upward-pess, and a bewildering mixeu-up-a-tive-ness
generally. . '
ResolvedX 2d., That being in great
doubt whether the rebellion failed or
succeeded and not being certain whether
Grdnt or Lee surrendered at Appomat
tox!, and being of opinion that the
Sotfth waseither right or wrong, and
the? North ivas either wrong or right,
and that neither was either to hurt, we
are, unanimously in favor of letting by-
gonea oe oy-gones, oi ouryingmeoiars
and Stripes in the same grave with the
Stars and Bars, of mixing three parts
parts of .".Dixie" with too of Yankee
Doodle," and of marrying the Union
eagle to th rebel buzzard.
Icesolcexl 3c?, . That being a liberal
party, we favor liberality in all things,
in politics and in religion, in virtue and
in temperance, giving perfect freedom
to all, freedom to women, criticising
no one's opinions and no one's actions ;
pardoning an occasional clean snirt ana
washed face ; neither averring that
there is a Ijeaven nor yet denying that
there is a hell : holding the Almighty
in proper respect, at the same time not
orKeiiiuiT tuur uiu irieuu . cxiuiu , uc
ieving that nothing is up or down, but
that everything is standingor sideways,
and in all things holding very fast with
one hand but altogether letting go with
ho other. I
Resolved Ath. That the Constitution
as it is is better than the Constitution
as It was ; that, the Bible is all very
well in its place, but the Book of Mor
mon is newer and the writings of Con
fucius older, ond every man Is master
of his conscience and conduct, and has
a right to tnake a god to suit himself ;
that free whisky and universal igno
ranee, coupled with free love and uni
versal salvation, make earth a paradise
and heaven a certainty; but that, nev
theless.allithings are turned round and
the times are out of joint, every straight
road is crooked, the earth turns back
ward on its axis, men waltz zigzag and
their brains are topsy-turvy, the world
is all bewitched, and the woman is the
coming-man. v ;
Resolved, That inasmuch as Judas
Iscariot, once , a wicked man, , after
wards became an apostle, and inasmUch
as Benedict Arnold shed blood-in de
fence 'Of American liberty, and inas
much as Jeff. Davis was not nominated,
we - are, heartily in favor ' of , Horace,
Greeley, believing as we: do that the
Democracy is not dead, but sleepeth,
and that all roads from Greeley go to
Grant; that Greeley was. an original
attolitionikt and an original secession
ist: that ,the' abolitionists and , seces-
sionists always worked to the same
end, and jtheir present combination is
only a renewal of past co-operation,
and wonqerful will it be in the eyes of
alt men when the arch enemy of the
Kuklux becomes their chief captain ;
when;the;prlnce of protection becomes
the king'of free trade; when thecham-
pibni of temperance bears the banner
of the bar-room business, and Satan
leads the!; hosts of heaven, then truly
shall the last be first, for great 13 the
mystery of Greeleyness. . :
Georgia lecides against Greeley.
The following despatch has 'been
handed u for publication :
! , s ; Atlanta, Ga., July, 30th, 1872.
Chairman Republican State Committee :
The jjjtemocratic State , Convention here
rejected oil overtures from . all Liberal Re
publcans. ;
. Thbir " resolutions reafllrni States rights
doctrines. Ignore tho Cincinnati platform,
and tiecline to unito with Liberals on elec
toral kick ei : M.GBANT,'
! tj:; : ; I j Sec'y State Cen. Rep. Com. ,
This action of the Jeffersonian Demo
crats, of the Empire State of the South,
was. ?to havo been exrected from the
.i-iAt-a,,! nnviano
V l Vr ?t fe--T a
Vlifedong principles.for oc and
piuuuer.
'- The Colored Vote.
A man is not to be judged so much
by what he says as by the company he
keeps. "Birds of a feather flock togeth
er," and the Uhappaqua iom now roosts
with the foulest birds of prey. ."One
who lies down with dogs, gets up with
fleas," and this proverb' is beautifully
illustrated in the present condition of a
very fine old journalist; who itches, for
tne lies n tjois oi omce. : as iin uuitor
Mr. Greelev was a friend of the colored
man, as may be proven by the fact that
the JNational (Jonvenuon oi me same
party that: has nominated - him for the
Presidencv once delighted itself with a
caricature of ouf excellent friend hug
tging the '-blackest 1 kind of a', ' negro
wench. Thus passes away tne giory or
editors -whd run . after false gods; 1 Mr. i
Greeley belongs now to the paty ; that
raised a terrible 'rebellion ior tne.pur
pose of ' perpetaally enslaving theTie-
gro, lie is in tne naiuis oi men 'wno
never did no iusfior iv. 1 negro, ana
f :
- tiie co.:Ui.
This last quotation? Js --Mr. Greeley's
own.! These fathers have forsaken and
disowned their relatives and descend
ants; and as -.Montgomery Blair, and
the rest of .that family sayi they be
lieve the negro ought to be sent to Af
rica. Mr; Sumner has been seerr; talk
ed to, labored with by illustrious Item-
ocratsj all to no purp4se,'for he says!
what - everybody"-Knows ' must' be7 so,
that the Greeley's administration, if in
fiicted upon us,-will 'befadversb' to'the
interests of colored men. 'It cannot be
otherwise, and hence, instinctively', the
colored voters of the country refuse to
have anything to do fvith the uemo
crati6 ticket. .: ': X '
! Liberal1 movement m a' Democratic
wooden horse, intended to be the means
of capturing the capital. it is ' failed
with meri intent only on getting inside,
and then they will "open the gates and
let in the whole host. 'The colored men
have no faith in the thing. They dread
1 1 - 1 A A. i II
and hate it, as vwell they may; Gree-
ley and 'Grosvenor. Schiirz and Pulit-:
zer, Tweed and Governor HOffman, are
all either on the wooden horse, or anxi
ously waiting for the success of their
specious trick.- v Colored men are not
natural foots; they know their friends.
They see things as they are, and cannot
be induced to vote for men who are the
allies of the wor3t enemies they ever
had. Grant they know, -and Wilson
they kpoWj'but these conjurors they do
not know and will not help them to
gain power to be dsed to' their injury.
Tbe' colored voters no doubt would
vote for Greeley if he were the Repub
lican candidate, but1 being the Demri-
cratio?candidate, th$y will not vote for
him. They are right. ' Let them stand
by their old tried r.friend.s: J7s.vour
Democrat. I
W. E. Bond-His yiiulicatiou.
.TREASURE DEPARTMENT,
Fifth Aumtob's Office,
- , Washington January 2d, 1872.
Sik srYour 4tteBOtth2Qtlult.'rGla-
tlve to the settlement of .youp-aceoanig;
as collector oil internal itevenue ior
First District of North Carolina, has
been received and contents noted. I
have to inform you that according to
the records of this office your accounts
stand as follows, viz : .
Account as; disbursing agent
closed by adjustment, da
ted December 7th, 1870,
ccount for ' assessment and
collection of internal reve
nuestandsthusi -Balance
due the U. S. Treas- . ;';
ury Report No. 4994, dated .
Sentehiber 5th. 1870; - 1 d 5 034 16
By amount vouchers on file. ;'
for money deposited and : f
taxes abated -since "last ad-
iustmenti I : ' ' . 3.976 41
Bal'ce due the United States, $ 1,077 75
In regard to your claims for commis
sions on'fcotton, shippecL'in bond,iow
pending in the revenue, office, l Avill
state thit there is no information in
this office relative to it, and therefore
can inform you only as to what the
records of this show. ' ' ' . ;
Respectfully yours, '
(Signed) 1 ' r ;i J. B. Mann, :.
William E. BoNft.'Esq.; late COHector
First District,' Edenton,- N. C.' ; '
Bv -adjustment No. 707S.' after his
mmmiss nns nn rc.it nn Rhinned in bond
were ascertained and allowed, by the
revenue officer, a balance of 47.9 was
founn to be due Collector, Bond on a
full settlement' of his accounts as collector.'-
.j:-'-vx. ' -X' x, f
"TrtEAsuiiY Departments V '
f X . : - (:4:?. u June, 2 1872., ,
$47.90. I admit. .and certify that a
balance t of , forty-seyen trtollars , and
.ninety-six cents ia due to the coUeetor
as stated in the above report (No. 7078.
(Signed ) ,' Wilt V2SnVU J. ones,
fl hereby certify thatill have exam
ined the adjustmenti and -final settle-i
.ment of Win E. Bond "u-ith the reve
nue oflidial; and find tho icbpies 'of the
Fifth AuditoT?s. letter and ' the Comp
troller's, certificate, to be in- every: re1
spect correct and itrue. 7 XI: ri- ; "
Given under ' my hand and omciai
seal this 26th July,-1872; ynyr.
wm.' It. Skinner, '
Judge of Probate and Clerk'
of Superior Court of Chowan County.
l)ear. t Attacked by 'Alligators.'
We have just heard of 'an incident p
11 A. 1 At . ' . - - I
mat occurreu in ine cauipuigu vi a par
ty of sportsmen who were recently ou t
on a - hunt for deer, t; .rney -ecared up-
three deers in the vicinity of one of the
bayous Of the Ogeechee and succeeded
l-JIt! A A-1 1U! 1 1 A . 1
bayou as the only means of, escape. He
had gone in the water but a short dis
tance before he was set upon by two
large alligators.1 : i The water was not
over three and a half feet deep at the
place, and the attack was in full view
of the sportsmen. The two hounds had
followed the ; deer, and: were conse-'
quently drawn into the combat; which
we are informed was most terrific and
bloody. : The stag made a gallant de
fence .with his antlers: arid fore hoofs,
but the fight was unequal, and the wa
ter was soon crimson with, the blood f
the noble animal as he sank down in
his death throes. : The dogs battled
bravely- wit
fi the alligators, but they;
too, had toi yield to " the ; terrific on
slaught of their enemy.
The party tried to'get in some shots
1 1 '11? M. 1 A . A 1 . U A.
on me alligators, out , iziey couiu uut,
and after finishing their bloody work
the monsters glided off. The affair was
extremely exciting. The sportsmen
returned to the city, with the other
deer, but the loss of their valuable
hounds marred all satisfaction in con
templating the booty of their hunt.
JSavannah Jxeics.
The
. .if.
Confederate, Archives.,
Jacob Thompson's .Zlission to Ginada
iAnotlier. Remarkable: Secret Dispatch
Jroni fthat Individual 11 Letting Day-
light into the Canada Incendiary and
Peace Coihmisslonership " IJii$me$s.
The New York Herald of the ,29th has
the following remarkahle.dispatch from
Jake " Thompson "to ' the Con federate
goyernment, givihgi:particuIars of the
moveroents of thei Canada incendiary
'AJReace-making". Commissioners. The
document is prefaced in The Herald by
an; explanation by the mysterious in-
dividual who supplies the copy of the
Thompson letter, as follows:
THE REASONS PORTIIE APPOINTMENT
! ! OF c6M3VtISSIONERS TO CANADA.
A short, succinct and truthful record
of hid tdric facts is herewith presented.
, In ,the month of- tMay, 1864, General
3rant was advancing upon Richmond.
His army was supposed to be 300,000
strdrtgor capahle1 of beihg reinforced
to that number,-which was opposed by
General Lee with only 80,000 men.
Sherman was advancing upon John
ston,' at Chattanooga, with an army
.4upposecl to be 150,000 strong, 1 while
Johnston's
A.
forces numbered only 40,-
000
The leading minds of the Confederacy
recognized their perilous, if not forlorn
position, and felt the utmost anxiety
that the disparity of forces would, in
the end, lead to their , overthrow. -In
this emergency diplomacy and arbitra
tion were suggested, and resulted in
the appointment of the commissioners,
who afterwards reached Canada, to ex
ercise their influence in a final adjust
ment, on. a peaceful basis, of the nation
al conflict. The South Was weary of
war, and obviously unable to continue
its n bloody arbitrament, and it was
hoped and believed that, the more
powerful North, equally sick of the
conflict; would be willing to extend the
olive branch under motives of a com
mon humanity and brotherhood. In
other words, that by proper approaches
they might once again "clasp hands
over the bloody chasm," fraternize and
adjudicate their difficulties on the basis
this-nil. - - There ;tfaa4fong pcaoo
party at th-Norths . and especially.in
the west:
?'In consequence of information deriv
ed from a reliable source, the Congress
of the Confederate States believed that
there was an organization in Northern
and Western States, and especially in
the latter, consisting of talented men
and true patriots men who loved their
whole country, its constitution and
lws more than the mere interests of a
section." In the overthrow of the South
ern States they saw the total destruc-
tion of the rights of all the States; and,
1 i-l. 1 . X',,-!. O , . V ,,.,1.1 1
disunion seemed inevitable. If the
North succeeded they would, in effect,
establish a contralized despotism ; if
the South triumphed, they would form
an independent confederacy. In either
case disunion appeared inevitable.
Lowers of the Union as formed by our
fathers-' they thought the time had ar
rived to assert their reserved rights. It
was with this party the commissioners
of the , confederacy were expected to
treat ; "and believing, as the Southern
Congress did, that all that was neces
sary to bring this organization into
action was a sufficient amount of means
to hiake their, true position felt, they,
appropriated in secret session $1,000,000
to be placed at-the disposition of the
Commissioners selected by the South-'
ern;execuiion. xius t,u n w louiarge
to .pe entrusted' at one .time to a single
1'convpy, and was transmitted by instal
mebts under the. following authorized
.'letter:- ,! :: ' ' ' '
i T-rnrrr'Tr-K-T r Anrll Q 1 0C I
Deaii Sir : I enclose you the bills of
exchange for $900,000, which I hope
will reach you in time. Please ackowl-
! edge receipt by telegram as well as by
letter. Y ours very truly, '
J. P. Benjauin. Sec V of State.
,ion. jacoo unompson, inc., iv. u.
-r w rrrr " irrrrt n-r 11
. liayirig . .thus:-stated the political
movement contemplated, it can readily
be apbrehended that a .mission of this
character, was or ine most.aigninea or
der, and purely of a-diplomatic nature.
subjoined; Jetter, written in the follow-
xt'prooaDiy aoes uoi appear in me
lately purchased archives, for they are,'
t by their Salesman, claimed to be merely
;'histonai .records,"- ana aouotiess vaiu
abje only fas statistical reports from the
Southern 'Quartermaster and commis
sary departments, maniresting upon
l1mctn5H nnontitv nf TrnViinr. nr1 1
w.-r. .. -: t - -
possibly subsist for a prolonged period.
, If aught more appears it will be very
readily explained from documents still
parties that will, demonstrate that all
Lthe secret service papera , were not des-
i I'll !T!-11.4 ' W.U -jril i -
iruyeu 111 luuuuuuu, uui sun remain
in Canada, and have never yet been
sold for a price, in bulk, to thepresent
Administration.' In -order to dispel,
however, ;any doubts as to the true ob
jects of the mission to Canada, and be
lieving that at this period a full exhibit
of facts may be made without exciting
further prejudice to any party. the
I following authentic document, and the
"tirst'sent from uanada, is offered as ' .
i;; JACOB THOMPSON S DISPATCH, : ;
giving a detailed account of his primary
operations in the Provinces: !
! r tjWiN bson, C. W., July 9, 1864. I
Honi J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State:
Sir': You will percei ve that I am at
Windsor, just opposite Detroit. I came
hero about three weeks ago. Mr. Clay
was taken sick at Halifax and remained
behind. ' He is ndw at St. Catherines.
I reached Montreal on May ; 29. There,
through the agency of-V-:, . ;I
arranged for an interview with a relia
ble and sensible gentleman from New
York city.-. After the fullest and freest
conversation with him I became satis
fied that nothing could be - done in the
Eastern States,where the war is popu
lar because of the profit which they
mm k tney are deriving' from rts prose
cution. 'Absolutely hothinar was prom
ised from an effort to deal with their
papers.-7,.;- --X :Xi K-f? v- .v.
After remaining two : weeks, for . the
arrival of Mr. Ulay, I came, on to this
pface.' Here I met with Mr. B- the
Grand Master of the secret order in the
western States and its President Thev
had the right to admit members: and
1 was at once initiated. This gave me
an insight' : jnto'1 their pnnclplesf .and
strengtrr.tii was much pleased with it.
ami mere, wasnotmng an ltjso raras l
was permitted , tor go, whichydid ,not
m eet my nearty approbation, and I
took three4 degrees. ? I think: .tiuey are
j in fair working; orders All4 they need
rise and assert their rights
"J. S X ,
reiurneu x was expeccea
would be re-arrested, and then
pected to rescue him and meet the con
sequences. : After the position taken
by the Cleveland - convention, I ft told
him I had no such expectatiph. : r be
lieved Lincoln could not touch him.
He is too much accustomed to bdek
down. Then they expected: that the
violence of the abolitionists was so
great that they would burn the" hall
lately erected in Chicago for the hold
ing of the Democratic convention, im
mediatelv after that oonvpntinn nrl-
jouraed on the 4th of July. But that
convention has been postponed until
the 29th of August. , Still there are
threats of the abolitionists to burn this
before the meeting of the copperheads,
as they are. But it is now fixed that
this movement will take place on the
20th.- . t .uiiiU'.'-t'-i
The enrolled strength of the order in
Illinois is 85,000 : in Indiana, 56,000, and
; irr rf . tr a i i
vniu, uv,uuu; in avenxucKy, unknown,
but represented as large. This investi
gation was made four weeks ago, and
the numbers are increasing daily. The
plan is this: Simultaneously a move
ment will be made at Chicasro. Rock
TclmiH nnd Rnrinfrf5ATr1 Thoio nknoa
willbeseized and hftld. tho nriSnnprs-
released, armed and mounted 7,000 at
Chicago and 9,000 at Rock Island. A
man has visited me from Chicago, who
asserts that he has two regiments in
that place, eager, ready, organized and
armed. They have complained that
they have been' cramped heretofore for1
the want of money, with which they
have been supplied. Efforts are now
ri, t
making to communicate . with the In
diana patriots to induce them to ini-
by a bold movement seize and hold
oners, if Indiana and Ohio move thev
nmstltute themselves a Western
confederacy and dmandpace : I
There are some choice spirits enlisted
in this enterprise, and all that we need
for success is unquailing resolve. - It is
agreed that takes command of
the Chicago prisoners; if he can be got
shall command the Rock Is:
land. To this I have given my sanc
tion.
I am satisfied United States troops
cannot be raised, if our government
should attempt an. invasion of .Penh-
sylvania, and I hope , such movement
.-trill Vvrt VTrtrl : T n rnrtrrAmnn4- Aw -t -l 1 I
will be made. If a 'movement could
be made by our , troops into Kentucky
and Missouri by the latter ;parfc of the.
month rt would greatly facilitate move'
ments in the west. They would.occu
py all the organized troops in this
quarter and leave the western States no
excuse, and the whole movement could
be made without firing a gun. I am
certain the President will see; the im
portance of Such movement at a
glance. . ;-; '.' ' ''"
The peopld of the North are growing
weary of the war, but the violent abo
litionists and the preachers of, all de-.
nominations (save the Catholics) are as
vigorous in their advocacy of ari entire
extermination.' The people of Canada
generally; sympathize with.'us. -If Lee
hold his own around Richmond, and
Johnston can waste and defeat the ar
my of Sherman, this fall will make
wonderful developments. Lincoln as
suredly will be defeated. McClellan's
late war speeches have pretty well
broken him down with the., peace De
mocracy. However, unless' we 'have
great successes at Richmond 'and : in
Georgia, there is no ; hope of defeating
a war man at , the ballot-box--at least
I have none. I fear, the leading.pijiti
cians of the North will favor peace.
They think if the federal arms are defeat
ed a peace man can carry the ' ballot
box. I do not think so. The military t
power is too - large and will vb drawn
Their money has become wpr
yet the fanatics show no symptom of
yielding. -Capt
-is with toe,- and
discretion, and he
possessQS my entire cpnhdenee. I great
ly rely upon his courage and sagacity.
ers, who are ready for any enterprise.
many of them men of first-rate intelli
gence.1,, :v , J.TW.;
"v? ";Vyir H uX
priv-ate nanos July s, ibt4. but owin
to the difficulty of transmission throug
""Y a
ijjwi v
the lines was not received for long
Mr. Benjamin writes - 'com-
of this fact at a much later
period. , But after the failure, of all the
filans to negotiate a peace or to obtain
he release of (Confederate 3 prisoners,
Mr. Thompson signified-; his desire to
withdraw from this arduous . field i of
duty, and the request was accorded. ....
:- -r ri 1 . lixt
X President ,Grant. M i
Elsewhere, will be7 found an article
headed "Gen. Grant?, taken . from
The New York World, the', organ o( trie
National Democratic, party. The truth
would force itself out ' in April, 1865
for all ' mankind ' could? see what this
country owed to' Grantj' and it would
have beetf 'pseleas for Tlie "IVortd to
have denied the credit due the great
commander. What was true on April
11, I860, cannot be untrue' in July, 1872.'
Virginia Correspondence Cincinnati Com-
Gcnomli Jo36nh' I If Mi ifstoii J for
r:i it:ri ri "TP rf -! ,., , .
At Charlottesville resides Judgo
Wm.S; Itobinsonva prominent lawyer. .
formerly memhcTof tbMirsini'eurt
of Appeals, anin olden times a wUil
cian'of emihencV.rowTriMuM
the lat amnesty, j bill, paeij, .by ,Con-
Greeley movement Jn uiejrnsQryativo
party eftHSfetterhlOLWfqllow
suche'aClAnel'MbW, '
Jackson-,- Of laTatrnU JoMfl,,nartnr "
OrlrfSBf ''of ,'rtTclm6tiaj, fes-tJbVcfnrjr
Henry A. 1 - Wise," JrA'otliW.'W too '
numerous to tnwBtiow, btrt ot qtEfl
psdminoiJce." iOf thwft .Rtfemorr:
Messrs- Moftby, Jackoon and-Gilmtr
mry he counled on as ardent and actual
supporters of the. Graiitjapd ,Vilson
ticket. ; Thev win Hot'ohN'VAtblr.but
. : They will tio'
work for'ltandwill -doubtless carry a
sufficient number Tf :thgrr friends with
them tojmakcr griiliremt frwrh in tho
f. D 1 r Pill 1 f " .f 11 f T rr 1 T , f , Ir. fVl,,! f 1
however, is of thanassive character. I
am not at liberty to tell you the details
Al ' A 1 I A 1 A
at
Balti-
more Convention, vou will see that tho
Southern opposition to Greeley is as
Mqsfy:!3 f-jpAfWafdjixVadmU
h II in a nutshell," but the explosion
may not injure anyone. Judge Rob- .
inson's present proposition is that the .
electoral .vote offi-Vire-iraaehftllinTitfi
the Electoral Collecre: .without: instruc
tions.' 'AU'theSoUtWfffSktmay'bo
advfaed-tb-YolldVlrMaVtottlo
in,ithir respect. When! i-thef votd is
take i!theco,Je. thpictt9i3tbeii)g j
prtuhityto do as they t. please-. No ;,
dcyurArtherdls'an'occuld'ei .
1
that he wnen tne. .ppnexs, become, organized
thev ex- Baltimore, or rather after the
niaktnjf, t Hht nexb PresWeniVi e f he ."'
the outlook now is. against Greeley, so
far1 as "this Inbinatidn Tis fc6nberhed7
Gerieral 'Joseph E. ' Johnetdrr,' bf 'Con-
federate ;famev.iwithH Cplorieli Mbsby
aqd others vvhnarnes I ditfnotjearn, 1
had consultations, with J udge itpbinsou
last AVk-arTVhich 'thisrPrposltron
Was. submitted; It did npt Teceivo. their
approval; howev andriag tho Xn .
A ' 1 1 f 11 1 f A T A 1
lervievva .wnicn .'ionowca.ieD.'. jnnn.
StOH 'disclosed the fact thathe had
m'lcorreSponderice- with,umritydfric
Blair-lgarding rMfiGfceky.-i Fitftri
his statementaatjeeemathf-tBlairwrotci
to Johnston, requesting him to be pres
ent at the 'BattlhYoreConvention, to
urge the indorsement of the CtriMnhaiti'
movement. Inthttcburseofargumexlt.
to induce, Johnston ,tOf act in Groeley,
Denair, jtiiair preaicted mat . the agQ
oPChappaqu would sweep thbobuntry
as Harrison did iniIR40. tifin. ..Tonrl-
as Harrison did in 1 1840. Gen. John
ston's reply was4 curt and charactcristlcf.
He said tliat he was.fwtaGreelrrjmi,!
and annQuncedh,iS iniention t6 voteAtor!
Grant. He promisedBlair.v howteilr.
that if Greeley oultf teUow Harrison's1
example, and dhrwitliin a month -after
inauguration, : he- would! fldvocato i
his.election. The resuifor tne. corirr- r
encewasnoc satisiactory toanyoiuiQ.
parties interested.
Everywhere " throughout thbi State 1
similar indications OJt hesitation, deter l
mination and vacillation are tot bvj
found. After a fortnight's trip, during
which I have seen aha conversed with
people of every shade and onditlon
whpse views are plainly set forth in thol
foregoing specimen bricks. . I reach,, the i,
conclusion that Virginia is nbtasccr-.
tain for Greeley as many suppose:' 1( 4
is not impbssible that I magnify fhe'
pppositiop ; but I da uiot (QyerfcateJthQ',
sypport which Grant-iwill receivp(4n,'ft.
negative way iropi (he passive policy,
ATf rinan rVirk oro rllc?oof tirlfVi Wltvi
and yet not satisfied with Greeleyi" "A '
h i. i
tK. American' SOOa Watcri'-"il
Soda rater tas first madQabohtU
seventy years ago. ;The crevUi of,thQji
invention, is said t to -be due to Austin. r
Thwaites, of Dublin.4 I
The manufacture of "Soda water, dhd,.
the meth6ds of drawing it, have beeri'
vastly improved during the past ten-or'-'!
fiftepn years. In few other deirtm,QiitSj.
of inventiye tasteand skill have greater i
strides beeri made tdtyard perfettion.
during the period named. American
iiiiyanuity.coems to deserve the-credit' I
all their skill in mattera bibulonsr imd :
gastroriomic, l.earaed' eomething new
about drinkables, whjen some enterprLs;
mg lanKees seiup an.vivmerican soua .
fountain" at the great Expositidri'br1
1867. The ude'Artimine alachtx'
glacee" waasi novelty iq ftuvPaxMans.
unci their ests, and mt witljftjietx'l
A Paris' paper, noticing thd'"great, t
success in the potable 4ine," said : ; 1
it is roajjy oneOithe cuncxJitle ot-Ji
the pxposition to .wtph the ! reprcs.cniH
tatives of .every .nation on tlie fiico.of.i
the globe as they . make a firsttrial of
the new beverage. .'The crowd is 4b''
great that they are fotmfed in lincr-by
the police ,nd firsts Becuring,)chagUs,7
take a driplcin turn. (Vs many as fJpo
jjiaisst iia.Y.tjj mxn boiu. in 1 on May, ,
much to the : satisfaction of themaYties
l
in charge; The contrast betweeni thD!
soda as seryfld in -tho j American etjtlo:.' I
aud the eauaazeuse ofjhe .FrejpcfiCo,!!
i3 so decided as to4 make the permar , v
nent introduction of the former ft cer
tainty." " j -M-ff'-iO
The manulactuyejrs ofithe old styioof 1"
apparatusire, of coursftr loud in their,,!!,
denunciations of 'the new. jThey eay i .
that the gas never fuliyparts witH tliq',.
sulphuric acid it brings4 over. froth' Vi6Ki
venerator unless it beallowed, td'ox
j?and in a.'rlsing. beJJ," as in,UifiTYi
macmnes. as to w?e ixutn 01 ihe 00 ; 1
Jections weare unable , to Judge; buf' 1
wbfether valid or not, the new arrange1 '
ment, being so much more con vehlerii :
han the oldt continues to win fayotji;;
abroad as jyell as At h,qme. 1 Waflnfl, n '
from examination of the! cataloguh of a . . !
prominent' -manufacturer thacllttrd'1'
American ebda apparatus , Is iflowdft'
use not only in Europebut' has fgundi V
its way. to far-orT, AuMrua,. and oyon 1
to CM
miC JrHSNiVELV, ; In Harpcrjs
Magazine for August.
,11
MX. ltiil if:
jr.-
1 1 Fatally in j arcd. The Salem Press say a
Mr. Andrew Gimble, of sthat county, died
u tp$ lh'Jnly, frvW injpriwj rooelvod In'
attempgto hap ove? 9, d,ltcbflpgcd.'about u
70 years. ' " ' ,