Indiana Messenger, The (Newspaper) - May 28, 1862, Indiana, Pennsylvania INDIANA MESSENG J WILLIS WESTLAKE SAMUELA SMITH J INDEPENDENT FEARLESS FREE f PAID IN ADVANCE AFTER SIX MONTHS VOL 6 NO 39 Tbe Indiana Messenger IB published by WESTLAKE SMITH in the Bora of Indiana Indiana Wednesday Morning at the low rate of two year or one dollar and f fly cents if paid in advance of the time of subscribing Bates of Advertising 1 square 3 00 1 square 3 50 1 square 4 00 1 square 6 5C 1 square 1 00 2 for six 00 2 squares for one 00 3 squares for six 00 8 for 1 00 Haifa column 00 Half f column for one 00 One column for 6 00 One column for ono 00 The Law of newspapers 1 Subscribers who do not give express to the contrary are considered as wish ing to their subscription 2 If subscribers order the discontinuance jf their Periodicals the publisher may con to send them until all arrearages are paid 3 If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their periodicals from the offices to which they are directed they are held responsible till they have settled the und ordered them discontinued 4 If subscribers remove to other places without informing the publishers and the papers are sent to the former direction they are held responsible 5 The Courts have decided that refusing to take periodicals from the office or remov ing and leaving them uncalled for is prim a facie evidence of intentional Fraud INDIANA WEDNESDAY EVENING MAY 28 1862 WHOLE NO 1SDIAKA BEAHCH BAIL BOAD ON Monday May 6th 1862 trains on the Indiana Branch will depart from and arrive ai Indiana as follows Train leaving Indiana at a m ar rives at Intersection connecting with Johns town Accommodation and Express Trains West and Train East Returning leaves Intersection at a m and arrives at Indiana at p m Truin leaving Indiana at p tn ar rives at Intersection connecting with Express Train and Johnstown Accommodation East Returning leaves Intersection at p m and arrives at Indiana at p m ENOCH LEWIS Gen Supt O W SEDQWICK Agent Indiana Ta Arrival and Departure of the Kails The mail by Kail Hoad arrives C time a week from the East and West at p departs at a m mail departs on Monday and and Saturday at 8 r M Brush Valley mail arrives Tuesday Thurs day and Saturday at 3 P W departs on same days at 4 r M Brookville mnil departs on Tuesdays Thurs days and Saturdays at 7 oclock a and arrives on Mondays Wednesdays and Fri days at 5 oclock p m The mail West Lebanon South Bend Olivet Clarksburg Eben ezer and Kent lenves Indiana on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 5 oclock a and returns on the same days at 8 p M Smicksburg departs Monday and Thurs day at 5 A M arrives at 8 r M same days mail departs on Thursdays at 7 A M arrives on Fridays at 5 r M mail departs on Tuesday nnd Fri day at 5 A M arrives Monday and Thurs day at 7 P M SAMUEL RICHIE Philadelphia Street Indiana Pa undersigned having removed to that X mi Philadelphia a few doors east of the for merly known as the St Clair refitted und materially repaired the same would respectfully inform his old pat rons and the public generally that lie is pre pared to accommodate nil who may patronize in a superior manner The House and Stabling being both new and commodious he respectfully asks the public to call and judge for themselves of his accommodations KICHIE Bee Livery Stable RirCHEY to keep at their stand on Clymer Street immediately the stable of the Indiana House a fine livery stock consisting of SLEIGHS all of are of superior style and will be til ed on the most accommodating terms One of the proprietors can always be found at the Indiana and the other at December 24 1860 THE PLAYMATE BY JOHN 0 SAXE Tbe pines were dark on Ramoth hill Their song was soft and Inw The blossoms in the sweet May wind Were fa ling like the snow The blossoms drifted at our feet The orchard birds sang clear The sweetest and the saddest day It seemed of all the jear For more to me than birds or flowers ys My playmate home And took with her the laughing spring The music and the bloom Tbe wild grapes wait as by the brook Tbe brown nuts on the And still the Mayday flowers make sweet The woods of Folly mill The lillies blossom in tbe pond The bird builds in the tree The dark pines sing on hill The slow song of the sea I wonder if she thinks of them And how tbe old time seems If ever the pines of wood Are sounding in her dreams I see her face I hear her voice Does she remember mine And what to her is now tbe boy Who fed her fathers kine 7 What cares she that the orioles build For other eyes than ours That other hands with nuts are filled And other laps with flowers 0 playmate in the golden time Our mossy seat is green Its fringing violets blossom yet Tbe old trees oer it lean The winds so sweet with beech and fern A sweeter memory blow And there in spring the veeries sing Tbe song of long ago And still the pines of Ramoth wood Are moaning like tbe The moaning of the seft of change Between myself and WILLIAM M MICHAEL MERCHANT TAILOR INDIANA PA be found on Philadelphia street near V ly opposite the Indiana where beBill keep constantly on hand a general as of Cloths Cassimeres Trimmings and is prepared to manufac ture to order all kinds of wearing apparel Grain and other approved country taken in exchange for work February P VOGLE iMIe reliant Tailors Indiana Indiana County GAN be found on Philadelphia where they are at all tiroes to execute work in their line in i neat and durable anner They keep constantly oa hand an Clothe Cassimeres Trimmings which they prepared to manufacture into at very low rates Oct 6 OF bought be fore the advance for saleby CO just received mistake the Ho 19 issa COWAN SECOND ARTICLE Messrs Editors We had occasion once to notice the conduct of Senator Cowan acting as the representative of a party as wise magnanimous and humane as any that ever graced the political world Subsequent events induce us to resume the subject that those who agree with that gentleman und those who willi dim may be seen in their proper light There is a the friends of Mr Cowan to identify the op position to him with thu Phillips and Boecher school of radicalism but we by a simple statement of facts to show that those who differ with him are quite nearer tlie views of the President than those who are his special admirers The first digression that M r Cowan made was in resisting the expulsion of Mr Bright for treasonable sentiments con ia a letter to the President of the Rebel confederacy This being a matter exclusively within the control of the Senate it did not require the sanction ot Mr Lincoln But we assert with deuce that had it required his endorse ment it would have received it cheerful ly The next digression of Mr Cowan from the path ot duty was in the making Government notes a legal tender 3 his received the hearty approval of the President Then came bis speech on Mr Trum buHs confiscation We are not able to speak of the details of that suffice it to say that it proposed to confiscate the property of rebels absolutely both real and personal Mr Cowan made an elab orate speech on that ia which he proved to bis own mind but to no oth ers that the whole doctrine of confisca tion was wrong he admitted that the property of rebels could be forfeited dur ing their lives not by confiscation but by making it part of the punishment for the treason attaching after a convic tion in a Court of justice Bat his ob jections to confiscation are equally strong against any Penal Statute that may be made to reach the property of rebels he is opposed to any kind of forfeiture and views it as a relic of barbarous not withstanding of the constitu tion thought otherwise and put it in that instrument So we have Mr Cowans views of the magnitude of the rebellion and the enormity of the offence by the punishment he would inflict he is op posed to punishing the rebels until the shall have been convicted in a court o justice and that too by a rebel It must be apparent to every person if the rebels are not reached by congres legislation the leaders will all es cape As soon as they are convince that they must yield to the Federal Gov eminent they will flee from the country they will take refuge in foreign It is in view of this fact that proposi tions are offered in congress to reach the property so that if the traitor escapes the penalty of the Uw his pro perty may be retained SB an to the Government so far wit may servi inoh a for the crime by Now we submit it ery earnest man whether in the impossibility of the Govern ment to capture and punish all the men j engaged in this unholy rebellion their j should not be taken at once and j appropriated to the use of the Govern ment We hold that there can be a con of rebel property personal pro lerty may be confiscated absolutely and eal for the life of the traitor Mr Cuw an admits tbe same in substance but is to it from reasons of public po icy and denies that it can be done in any other way than by a judicial pro cess It is said that the President en lorees Mr Cowans views on this ques ion We ask for the proof he may be to absolute confiscation and is but he may be in favor of confiscation such as tbe constitu ion authorizes Tbe next difference between Mr Cow in and tbe President is on colonization Phis is a favorite doctrine of Mr Lincoln ind one which is deserving of every en Mr Cowan thinks that t is a great humbug under Mr Trum lulls whether he would endorse it n any case is left in doubt Having Sundered in everything he has said and lone since be took his Heat in the Sen ite it is not to be wondered at when he ails to comprehend a subject of so much this one But he caps the climax of folly and imbecility in bia en deavor to win the smiles of the crats by a fling at the slaves And just lere is the greatest difference between lim and the President It was before speech on confiscation that the eman message was sent into the Sen ate and everything he said about the slaves incapacity to know or care any thing about liberty would apply with equal force to their emancipation under he Presidents recommendation If Mr 3owan is right the President is wrong the Presi Jent Slave States ought o cooperate with the Government and emancipate their slaves Mr says tbe slaves do not know anything about freedom dont care auj thing about t and are not fit for it The difference a in the men The President is sincere y opposed to slavery 11 r Cowan is to it he is un ible to rise to the dignity of the subject DUt reproduces the stale slang of sly dem which is devoid of sense and truth But then his speech is published in Tennessee by Governor Johnson whom everybody likes We scarcely know how to get over this argument but we will try it If two weights be sus pended so as to strike each other they will both stop On the same principle a negative and an affirmative assertion in regard to the same matter will destroy each other Mr Johnson declared at the commencement of the war that the man who would rebel against the Government lias no right to hold property Set this off against the publication of that speech and nothing is gained for Mr But why was that speech selected from all the others for Tennessee tion Because it was the only one suit able to that locality Messrs Collanier and Browning have been rep resented us coinciding with Mr Cowan on confiscation Why not publish their speeches in Tennessee There is a very joud reason why Andrew Johnson did not publish the speeches of those men along with Mr Cowans They bad too much republicanism in them they were too definite and bold on the slavery queS tion Had Mr Cowan spoken as these men spoke his constituents would have sustained him but he bid for the favor of Border state conservatism II e shook at the knees and winced at Southern thunder Let him enjoy bis laurels they are unenviable All the efforts of his friends to late Lis course with the Presidents are of no avail Had we such a mous croaker in tbe Presidential Chair as he secession and proslavery fanaticism would be reigning triumphantly over the shattered fragments of a once glorious Nation Mr Lincoln is tbe polar star of a sentiment which is coeval with the government It originated in an hour of darkness and peril it found its res ponse in the hearts of the American col it is now struggling against a power more subtle more cruel and more audacious than were King George and bis Parliament and it shall survive it all Ignorance may hawk and tear at it stupidity may taunt and jeer it sly dem may declare that they dont care whether it is voted op or voted down but it shall live and receive the adoration of the great and the good in all future ages WHO made you inquired a lady teacher of a lubberly boy who bad just joined the claps he Dont know yop ought to be ashamed of yourself a boy fourteen years of age Theres little is on ly can tell 1 daw here who made yon the infant prodigy There said teacher triumph boy I knew he said the but a little time a ago since he was made 1 gays Confederacy hu no floating debt No wonder iU debt float sink Incidents of tbe Advance We clip the following interesting par from letters to the Tribune from advance Returning to the inhabitants I think the blacks rather enjoyed the discomfit ure of Secessia and welcomed the Yan kees Dey told us you was going to brand us like sell us to Cuba most dat you had horns and huffs said a tall smart girl to me as she waited at table after cooking our party a hasty meal of which we furnished the material but was I big fool nuff to believe it You just de bes people I ebber 10 Not a negro but appeared confident that he or she could not in any way suffer from as and might possibly receive benefit I hope it will prove so The negroes are the only Union people now in Dixie I fancy Yet another illustration of the beha vior of the rebels to their own people and one of their average morality Six women discovered in a house near West Point assert that they were ravished by Magruder and his staff in consequence of a suspicion of Union sympathies at taching to them lee a well known character in one of a squad detailed as guard to the wagons strayed off in the woods in search of water and suddenly came upon four armed confederates He feigned to be lame and in answer to questions said that himself and two oth irs had strayed from their The confederates ordered him to conduct hem to his companions when George led them up to the wagons and they were taken prisoner by tbe men on guard examples still further exhibit the inhumanity of the rebels Capt H B ORiley Co G 1st regi ment Sickles Brigade fell upon the field o front of wound ed in the mouth and jaws He went in to the field with a bullet proof vest on His regiment was forced back before the Captain could be removed it re covered its ground the Captain was found to be dead The bulletproof vest was one and there were bayonet wounds through the officers breast That case ia made out certainly Second Orderly Sergeant Pease Co B of the same regiment slightly wound ded nas taken prisoner in company with two boys On the night of tbe evacua tion of all three were tied to the tail of a loaded wagon and started for Richmond The lads in the first mile of the retreat came up with Lieut Nelson Company F 1st regiment Sick les brigade badly wounded and a pris oner lie became unable to walk The brutes who had him in charge bayoneted him twice and left him on the roadside Our troops found there the next day just alive but not able to speak One of the boys paroled on account of his youth says he saw the wounded of ficer bayoneted to get rid of him That case would seem to be made out also Major Ryerson of a new Jersey regi ment flung to the ground by a wound fell into their hands in the ebb and flow of the fight When his body was recover ed on Tuesday it was found to have been bayoneted and the savages had cut his ears off close head We append also extracts from tbe Tribunes Norfolk correspondence We are just in time to prevent er crime of slavery The Norfolk Day Book of Saturday now in my hands has the following advertisement in its col SALE OF FREE BLACKS FOR CITY TAXES City Collectors Office Norfolk May 6 Under tbe provisions of an ordinance directing the sale of all Free Blacks who fail to pay their taxes I shall before tbe door of the City Hall in Norfolk on Monday May 12 at 12 oclock SELL the named persons for the term specified by said Here follow the names of one hundred and twelve males and two hundred and females 1 was at the place at the given time but found no opportunity to buy a slave bad I desired so atrocious a crime God be praised slavery ia doomed None welcome BO loudly none so gladly our soldiers as the slaves of these two cities Whether others be Unionists or not they most undoubtedly are Reaching the Ferry I crossed to the city of Portsmouth finding the Elizabeth River positively yellow and covered with a black scum from burning rebel steam ers and gunboats and the ruined navy yard were all fired by the reb els and were still burning or half conceal ed by wreaths of dense black 0 what a contrast Portsmouth present ed to Norfolk The burping of the navy yard ruining every mechanic in Ports mouth had filled full their cup of wrath against the traitorous tyrants Oar men were welcomed as deliverers Women and even men thronged about the ad column of the 16th Regiment the evening before and insisted on kiss ing the old weeping tears of joy as they did so Almost every women I met and half the men bowed and smil ed gladly saying You are This was of course not as an individual for I knew none of the throng bat was a recognition Of my connection with the army The soldier received an Bouquets of were proffered from the blooming gar dens and two citizens earnestly proffer ed me a breakfast in an Exhausted and hungry from a nights march diversified only by a ride for a part of the way in a mule wagon over the worst of roads I cheerfully ac On entering the house the good woman who kept it said Weil sir what will you have mind we have to live pretty plainly here was my answer I am used to simple living in the army give me a bit of beef steak and that will Steak was the exclamation we have Very well some ham and Eggs there are none to be had Ah then just some bread and butter and s cup of Butter and tea said my poor hostess Sir the like of us poor folks havent seen such things fot a long time nor is there a pound of tea to be bought in all I rath er despaired of any further calling of the of fare and left it entirely to my entertainers who soon produced some ham corn bread rye coffee and excel lent oysters This I find to have been a luxurious meal amid this starving popu lation The excitement was intensified when I insisted on paying a quarter of a dollar for my entertainment What real money said the poor woman and she exhibited it at once to an admiring crowd who looked upon it as a memento of their bygone happy days I have nar rated this incident it shows the almost utter both of mon ey and provisions on the part of the in habitants of this long oppressed and downtrodden people Your soldiers are largely sneered one Virginian as Max Webers 20th New York German regiment pass ed us I answered and what a pit our adopted citizens should be so much truer than you Virginians to the manner You will be your selves conquered said another n conversation this is but a our arms we must expect ups and downs in was my reply but does it not strike you that we Unionists get all the ups and you all the downs He made no response but to mutter something about Bull last battle the rebels appear to have heard much about THE all speak of the noble head of our Providential man the Moses of our Israel I never witnessed so much enthusiasm about any man as about that plain homely gaunt being who walks unostentatiously among our whom they greet as their truest Today he visited the hospitals Monroe and spoke to every man in those crowded ward rooms where rebels and Unionists lie side by sideon beds of pain God bless said many of our dear wounded boys responded faintly but fervently some wounded rebel soldiers I do not wonder at tbe report that reaches us this evening that some of the rebel prisoners refused to go back to their own army where they are so differently treated than they are among us and where they mast contrast the traitor Jeff Davis with that truest man Gods noblest work the man for the hour ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tbe Rights of Lumbermen An important case respecting the rights of lumbermen to recover the value of timber seized by other parties during freshets has recently been decided The action for damages was brought against an individual for converting to his own use one hundred and four logs alleged to contain twentyfive thousand feet and valued at two hundred dollars belonging to plaintiffs citizens of an adjacent coun ty The jury found from the evidence that the saw logs found at the mill of the defendant by the agent of the plaintiffs belonged at that time to the plaintiffs and that they were part of tbe logs that came down the river in the freshet of May 1860 and that said logs had gone ashore on tbe land owned by defendant and had been purchased there by the agent of the defendant from cer tain persons claiming to own the same and that said Ings were carried by the of the defendant to his mill for the purpose of being sawed up into the defendant when called agent of plaintiffs claimed to own the said logs The jury rendered a verdict for plaintiffs damages 8271 83 It appears that by the freshet of May 1860 there were lost from the boom in the Susquehanna river lops of the value of about the property of differ ent parties and that many other puits are pending in the courts against differ ent parties to recover the value of said logs converted by them to their own use JONES Vent to serenade his ladylove and could only sing after the following fashion oh cub with be The Cub oh with be Tbe stars are And all around above With beauty teabin floodlight boon are beet for Jones felt that he waa aa ate being when a small boy opposite where he sining cried out Blow yoor Presidents Proclamation WASHINGTON May proclama the President of the United States of appears in the public prints what pur ports to be a proclamation of Major Gen eral Hunter in the words and figures to wit Here follows Gen Hunters Or der as published last week declaring the slaves in aud South Car olina forever And Whereas The same is producing some excitement and misunderstanding therefore I Abraham Lincoln President of the United and declare that the Government of the United States had no knowledge information or belief of an intention on the part of General Hunter to issue such a proclamation nor has it yet any authentic information that the document Is genuine and further that neither General Hunter or any other commander or person has been author by the government of the United States to a the slaves of any State free and that supposed proclamation now in question whether genuine or lalse ia altogether void so far as respects such declaration I further make known that whether it be competent for me as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy to declare the slaves if any State or Stites whether at any time in any case it snail have become a to the maintenance of the Government exercise of such supposed powers are questions which under my 1 reserve to myself and which I cannot feel justified iu leaving to the decision of I commanders in the field These are to I tally different questions from those of J police regulations in armies and camps On the 6th day of March lust by a I special message I recommended to Con gress the adoption of u joint resolution to be substantially as follows Resolved That tbe United Description of Richmond Richmond the capital of Rebeldom is tbe capital of Virginia situated on tbe left bank of the James tiver It is the largest town in Virginia and one of the most beautiful in the Union The situ ation of tbe city and tbe scenery of its environs are much admired combining in a high degree of gran denr beauty and variety Tbe river winding through verdant hills which rise in graceful swells and undulations is in by numerous islands and gran ite rocks among which it and foams for a distance of several The city is laid out with great regularity in rectangular blocks Twelve streets nearly three miles in length run parallel with the river The principal thoroughfare of business and fashion is Main street Tbe capitol is situated on a high hill and is the most conspicuous object in Richmond It stands on the centre of a public square of about eight adorned with a por tico of Ionic columns and contains a mar ble statue of Washington by taken from life and considered a perfect likeness The City Hall is an elegant and costly building in the Doric The Jail Court Ar mory Market House Orphan Asylum and Masonic Hall are each of them among the finest buildings of the kind iu the country The General Government had lately erected a custom house there at a cost of nearly There are three banks in the city with a capital of over two million There were seven papers and three periodicals published there The city contains thirty churches and two syna gogues Among the institutions of the city may be mentioned tbe Virginia His and Philosophical Society the Richmond College founded by the Bap in 1842 the St Vincents College under the direction of the Roman Cath church and the Medical Department of and Sydney established in 1788 The edifice of the latter is a fine specimen of Egyptian architecture Tbe water of the river is raised by for cing pumps into three ing a million gallons each and thence distributed over the city Three bridges cross the river and connect the city with Manchester and Spring Hill Before tbe rebellion Richmond was rapidly in creasing in population and Richmond is the eastern terminus of the James river and Kanawha work of great magnitude commenced in 1834 and now completed to Covington costing nearly eleven million dollars The great Southern mail route runs through Rich mood the Central railroad to tbe Richmond and Danville with the railroad systems of Georgia and Tennessee on the South all run through here The James river is navigable to Richmond for vessels draw ing ten feet and those drawing fifteen feet come within three miles of the town A line of steamers formerly plied be tween Richmond and New York and Philadelphia semiweekly and daily be tween Baltimore and Norfolk The chief articles of export are tobacco wheat and flour Of the former article were exported annually Richmond pos an immense water power derived from the falls of James River which from the commencement of the rapids a few miles above the city descends about one hundred feet to tbe tide level Few places in tbe State or in the coun try possess greater natural advantages for productive industry of which ade quate advantage has not been taken Richmond contains about forty tobacco factories some of which are very exten sive and in which large quantities of to bacco are now to be de by reckless men who do not own it Richmond was settled iq 1787 Its population is whom about this city an active part Mrs Ken are colored 1 he estimated value wile of Captain Frank Kendrick of its imports is twelve millions of dollars of the second Cavalry had been It was chosen as the seat of government staying at a hotel in that village for of the rebel States in the fall of 1861 time when she was aroused one Jeff Davis and all the officers of the rebel a man at her room door who government reside there Probably they which of course have imitated the precaution of the rebel and on Ids persisting she i departed for parts unknown The insult was repeats With the capture of the rebel capital ends third visit he tried to p the vitality of the rebellion the room co as to erij door Raising her AN EXCITING ball entering the ne rebels appear to be iu considerable force vein and he fell yet in Western Virginia In Page proved to be a p county the other day the First Virginia place a wealthy under Col was ordered out ou a and came near being bag Mrs Ke ged by the rebels wuo lay in ambush to what she 1 receive them After a skirmish onr troops fell back to their original position her On their return Gen Sullivan ordered charge 1 the 13th Indiana to go over the same he dece ground and see what they could expressed So they started on the same oil Before they got within a mile of the done The place however in which the 1st Virgini a t 1 f i ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt a gradual abolishment ofj slavery giving to snch State pecuniary aid to be used by such States in its to compensate for the of public and private losses pro by such change of The f in the language a quoted was adopted by large in both branches of Congress and noi stands an authentic definite and solem proposal of the Nation to the State and people most immediately interested the subject matter To the people these States I now earnestly appeal do not argue I beseech you to make the argument for yourselves yoa cannot if you would be blind to the signs of times I beg of you a calm and ed consideration of them ranging if it may be far above personal and partizan politics This proposal makes common cause for a common object casting no reproaches upon any It acts not the pharisee The change it contemplates would come gently as tbe dews of Heav en not rending or wrecking anything Will yon not embrace it So much good has not been done in one effort in all pist time as in the Providence of God now your high privilege to do May tbe vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it In witness whereof I have hereunto get my hand and the seal of the United States to be affixed Done at the city of Washington this 19th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six and of tbe United States the ABRAHAM LINCOLN By the President WILLIAM H SEWARD Secy of State A BRAVE letters received in this city give the lars of an affair which recently occurred at Jape in which a lady of ia had fallen into ambuscade be foe iu favor all their force their appearance joined her denl on either side of the Indianians Tennessee suddenly on either side of tbe Indianians and fell on them with great fury ing them into confusion which ended in a rout The result was that come thirty were and missing and many lost Wral her their arms and came back to camp with out about onethird ment Two of cavalry which accompanied the were also ehance and only s s She KEEP out
