The weekly Butte record., 1863-07-18
OUR EASTERN LETTER.
[KDI1oRIAL coRREsr


cavalry captured twenty rebels at McConnells-
burg. There is small party of rebels at Get
tysburg, and are said to be 5000 strong at
Hagerstown and Williamsport. They hold
the south bank of the Potomac from Cumber-
land to Harper's Ferry. They have already
done an immense amount of damage in the
way of foraging. and am disposed to believe
that that is all they contemplate in the present
raid. This demonstration of Lee has caused
Gov. Curtin great anxiety. and he has fallen
away. 10 flesh. considerably bly-having lost about
thirty pounds of flesh 10 the past Two weeks.
He exclaims. :" 0, nv God Why will not the
Administration wake up and relieve this old
Commonwealth? Gov. Curtin has repeatedly
offered Pennsylvania militia to guard Wash
ngfon, while Hooker's army should go "on to
Richmond" but the Administration choose TO
reserve Hooker's army as guard to the eapi
tai, leaving the Pennsylvania militia 10 pro-
tee, their own borders In this emergency
Gov. Curtin calls Justify upon the neighboring
States for assistance. To this appeal the Dem
ocratic States of New York and New Jersey
have responded promptly, while the surround
ing Abolition States have not responded at all
Under the present policy of the Administra-
tion these Abolition States consider themselves
loyal and patriotic without defending anything
but their Abolitonism. The Philadelphia Age
noting the proposed great 4th of July celebra-
ton in Philadelphia, which President Lincoln
has promised TO attend, and noting also the
appointment by the Governor of New Jersey
of Commodore Stockton at the head of the
Jersey militia, says:
while Commodore Stockton (Copperhead)
is ready to fight the rebels with fire and sword
the Jacobin Leaguers are preparing to cee-
brate the Fourth of July with fireworks and
crackers ~
The reply of Mr. Lincoln to the resolutions
adopted at the Albany meeting, on the 10th
ult relative to the arrest of Mr. Vallandig-
ham, and the vindcation of free speech is ra.
ther lengthy for inclosure in this letter The
President deals with the question elaborately,
justifyiug the suspension of the habeas corpus,
and arguing with some logic and much sophis-
try the claims of the Administration to act as
they have done in the matter of summary ar
rests, trials by military courts, aud the necessi-
ty of not waiting for the commission of defined
crimes to put troublesome persons ont of the
way. He says that he regrets the necessity of
Mr.. Vallandighams arrest aud banishment
and will be glad to discharge him. provided
the public safety will not suffer by it. At the
same time be intimates that if be had exerci-
sed his own discretion he would not have Or
dered the arrest of Mr.. Vallandgham at all.
THE strong feeling throughout the whole
North in favor of the recall of Gen. McClellan
TO the head of the army is mauifesting itself on
every side. The Washington National Intel
ligencer makes an energetic appeal to the
President to recall Gen. Mcclellan to the
command OF the Army of the Potomac, assert
ing that he =" cannot, by any other act do so
much to restore the confidence of the nation"
The Councilmen of New York city adopted a
resolution that the Administration be re-
quested to place Gen. Mcclellan in the posi-
ton which the present crisis demands for the
safety Of the Republic 1t will also be seen,
by reference TO dispatch from Harrisburg
that the ruulor that Governor Seymour had
called Gen. Mcclellan to Albany to help him
to organize fifteen regiments to go to the res
cue of Pennsylvania created general joy. Nc
Clellan is regarded there as the hope of the
nation
II will be recollected that Gov. Yates, of
Illinois, prorogued the Legislature of that
State when about appropriating 100000 for
the sick and wounded soldiers of Illinois. The
Democrats, in State Convention, to help re-
pair that outrage, contributed in the Conven
tion S47,50O-a large portion in SIS, sl0's,
and some, up as high as $1,000, $500, etc. !!
1t was one of the grandest exhibitions of pub
lie generosity ever recorded.
BRIxGIxG HOME ONES OWN CREED.-Gov-
ernor Seymour has made Brigadier General
Of John A. Green, of Syracuse. The Journal
(Aboliiiou) there abuses him, and the appoint
ing power therefor. The Courier tDem.) sug
gests that Green apply the Burnside" " to
the Journal, and shut it up. An ." "ORDER 5"
would do it.
WHY THE NEGROES DON'T ESLIsr.-The
Washington correspondent of the Anti-Slave
ry Standard tells US why it is the negroes do
not enlist in the District OF Columbia
Recruiting among the colored people Of
this District is slow work, and it Is not surpri
sing that it is so. The Young men am ug the
colored people, as general thing do not man.
ifest any enthusiasm for the war. They are
afraid of The enemy-of his inbuman crueties
which be knows so well how to pour upon the
head of the black man. The colored people OF
this District stand in awe of JEFF Davis at this
hour. and it is not simply the old inbred fear
of the Shareholder it is the rude instinct of
the negro which teaches him that the rebel
government is the boldest ablest. and so far
the strOnCtst Therefore when JEFF Davis