American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-08-17

10 make ralu on tAat city. III Is salu
that the Government is informed of it.
"A Convention of the different Christ
ian denominations is called to meet in
West Alexander, Washington County,
on the 23d inst, at 10 o'clock, a. M, for
the purpose especially of discussing the
following proposed amendments to the
Constitution of the United States viz:
/. The explicit recognition of the being
of God.
2 The meditorial supremacy of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
3. The supreme authority of the divine
law.
4. To make the Constitution more ex-
plicitly anti-slavery.
In addition to these, the following top
les were adopted as subjects for discus
sion.
5. The duty of national sanctiication
of the Sabbath.
The duty of national temperance re-
form.
Major General Wallace, lately in
command Of the Middle Department, is
ordered to resume command ofthe Eighth
army corps, and other troopsscrving with
in the department from which he was
temporarily relieved. The troops Of Maj.
General Hunters command, temporarily
assigned to the forces under Major Gen.
Wright, have been relieved from that
assignment. At last accounts General
Wrights command was at boonesboro,
Maryland.
Dan Voorhees, removed his law Office,
in Terre IIaute, a few days ago, and in
doing so left behind a package of pamph-
lets which are now in the hands Of the
Provost Marshal. On examination they
were found to be fifteen hundred copies
Of the Yellow Book, containing the sec
ond and third degrees Of the ritual ofthc
Sons of Liberty, done up in an unopened
express package
The Union officers recently exchang-
ed at Charleston have arrived at Fortress
Monroe. They report that Gen. Foster
says he win take Charleston within two
months, Prisoners Of war confined in
the interior of Georgia are being remoy-
cd to Charleston, as the rebels don't con-
slider them safe in their late prisons.
Six hundred officers arrived on the 3D..
Speaking Of the burning of Cham
bhrsburg, the New York Tribune thus
disposes ofa Copperhead falsehood "The
Copporhead organs which asserted that
the Union armies have burned towns un-
der similar circumstances simply lie
there is no other word that does them
Justice. No Union General ever order
ed the firing of a city or borough where
in he had encountered no resistance
though Quantrell not only burned Law
renee, which was surprised and lay at his
mercy, but called most Of its unarmed
male citizens out of their beds and butch
cred them in cold blood
General Kilpatric hasso far recover
cd from his wound that he was enabled
to resume his command in the Army Of
the Cumberland afew days ago.
The NEW YORK Herald suggests
that Admiral Farragut's recent movement
is sprobably designed not so much for the
capture of Mobile as it is to obtain pos
session of Dauphin Island and Mobile
Point, so that the harbor can be eHectual-
ly blockaded, and at the same time to re-
lieve the large Union feet now off that
place, who were hourly threatened with
an attack from the rebel iron clads lying
under the guns Of Fort Morgan.
HAVE NEGROES THE RIGHTTo VoTE?
Before the late special election twas
a favoritc clectioneering dodge of the
Copperheads to tell the people that if the
first amendment was adopted it would
give negroes the right to vote The
amendment has been adopted Are they
willing to admit, now, that under it ne
groes have the right to vote?
IF Grant wins battle lis In part
a triumph orer the Fundamental 1aw Of
the Government If Sherman conquers
Atlanta, an essential portion of the Con
stitutioa is Htercqtt9' deaa. If our sol
diers win victory, lis glory is lost IN the
consciousness that a portion Of It's fruit is
mdrqed aud battered ConStitution--lMI-
,raukce Ne,es.
This being the summing up of the re-
/ suit OF IeueIaI SucCesSes, ds Elaue Dy the
I" Peace men, Of course it is desirable,
in their view, that no successes should be
achieved, but that the rebels should tri-
umph. That is the logical result of all
" Peace" principles. Can loyal Demo-
Gratis act with such men?-AD. Ere.
Jour.
WELL PUT.--On the occasion Of
the National Fast, the Rev DR.. Rob-
inson, of the Theological Seminary,
preached in the Central Presbyterian
| Church of Rochester, n. Y, and We
ry pertinently asked:
What m2n can write his will and
say, this goes down to my posterity,
that l helped to arrest this war before
its work is done? should be asham-
ed to have it said ofme, that for prop
erty or any other selfish considera-
ton, / proved false to the issues Of
this Civil War of 1864. We are not
exhausted. We can not be exhaust
ed, even if it is carried down to the
next generation. And we ought to
carry it to the next generation, rath-