Year: 1863


Beauties OF the Conscription Lottery.
The vagariss Of the wheel Of fortune pre-
sided over blythe Provost Marshal General are
entirely ahead Of anything that was ever pro.
duoed by the strawberry lottery Of the Tribune
or the ~. XII. Xiv. lottery of the Daily Ne,cs.
One Of the prizes OF the Conscription lottery
has been drawn by the patriotic pugilist, John
Morrissey. OF course he will grid on his sword
and prepare to attack the foe, striving to emu
late that gallant guardsman and brother pro-
fessor of the noble art OF sclf-deence who fell at
Waterloo, surrounded by heoatomb Of slaugh-
tered Frenchmen. Another prize has been
drawn by John Clancy. one OF the shining
lights of one section of the democratic party in
this cty--it does not matter which Clancy
will go to the field. we are sure His Leader
henceforth will be the general who will flash
his sword most gallantly and triumphantly in
the face of the advancing foe. We will take
care of all the branches and ramidcations of
the democracy while John is serving his coun-
try in the tented field; and when he comes
back, covered with glory, we will renstal him
in Office.


Last, but not least, in our notice or winners
in Uncle Sans lottery is VIM. II. Fry, one of
the editors of the Tribune. On this prize we
congratulate the country. Mr.. Fry, although
connected with the 7ribsme, is gentleman aud
a scholar. When he shall have gone-as 60 he
will--there will be none of the same sort left in
that establishment. He is, moreover, an author
and musical composer besides. In the latter
quality he Will be an invaluable acquisition to
our army. He has been for score of years
and more trying to manage opera and operate
troupcs in this city. If he found them un-
manageable it was no fault of his. Not an
imprcsario or great Italian artistic has landed on
these shores for the last quarter of century
but Wm II. Fry was eager to press upon their
acceptance an opera Of his own composing.
The miserable foreigners could not see tae
beauty of it, and so he could not have his
operas presented to a longing and admiring
public.


But now fortune seems ready to make
amends to him for her former playful buffet
ings. The Secretary of War, who is famous for
discovering the right man for the right place,
viii Immediately, we have no doubt, commits
sion him as brigadicr general of the musical
brigade In that position he will be able to
have all his operas and musical compositions
played by every band in the army to the ex-
clusion of such stupid airs as Yankee Doodle y
"Hail Columbia" "John Brown Marching On'
and "The Battle Cry Of Freedom" Hereafter
the ears Of our brave soldiers will be greeted
with classical music alone, composed by Brga-
der General Fry. Who can estimate the
moral effect Of the enthusiasm which this will
inspire in the breasts of the army It will be
no figure Of speech 10 say Of Brigadicr General
William H. Fry that


One blast upon his bugc horn
aa Were worth ten thousand mon.


TIE RESTORATION or THE UNION AND THE MIC
CERHEAD AND CopPERHEAD PREss-The radical
and copperhead journals Of this city are making
a great fuss about the mode, manner ard condi-
tions of the restoration of the Union at the end
of the war, and they are specializing whether
the army now being raised by the draft will be
sufficient for the purpose. They might as we'll
save themselves the trouble. When the military
power Of the rebels is completely destroyed as
it soon will bc-there will be no longer any
question at issue. The insurgent States, by
virtue of the constitution, whose authority is
above that of Congress and the President, be-
come Internationally States Of the Union again;
and they have only to send their Senators to
the Senate Chamber and their Representatives
to the other hall of Congress, and no power
can keep them out. II needs no proceeding of
Congress, no act Of amnesty, no proclamation
of the President, to give validity to the restora
tion Of the Southern States to their legal and
constitutional status in Congress Nor has Con-
gress or the President any power to interfere
after the close Of hostilities with any OF the
domestic institutions or municipal laws of the
South. The Confscation act and Emancipation
act are null and void by their unconstitutional
ty, and the only emancipation which can have
any effect is that which has taken place by the
acts of the generals within the lines of the
army. All outside is legally untouched by the
Presidents proclamation, which is, as he himself
described it, only like the Pope's bull against
the comet The war being over, military lines
cease to exist, and every State right and inst-
tuition revives by the force Of the constitution.
This was the platform laid down by Congress
in its declaratory resolution in the extra session
proclaiming the fundamental law Of the land;
and all parties may as we'll make up their. minds
at once that this constitutional principle will
prevail over all crotchets and revolutionary
ideas. The people are determined to have SO,
and that settles the matter, as all the world will
fnd out by the result Of the next Presidential
election. M


I. LoYALrY-WHAr Is IT!-The begging circu-
lar for broken down republican journals which
we published on Thursday raises point which
We should like to see more clearly defined by
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