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THAXS DOORS NORTH OF TH PUBLIC SQUARE, J ULIASA ST Bedford, Pt. THIS HOWE sowell known to the traveling public, continues under the charge of lgac Mengel. He spares no pains to supply the wants *ad comfort of all who favor tatn with their patronage. His table is spread with the best the market affords. His chambers are handsomely furnished, A convenient stable is at tached to the House, attended by careful hostlers, apr. t, 1864—zz. _ nyjuoif HOTEL. ▼ ALBKTIFR OTCKZAS, PROPRIETOR. Weat Pitt Street, fomserly knows as the Globe Hotel.— The public are assured that be has made ample arrange ments to accommodate all ttiat may faTorhim with their patronage. A splendid Livery Stable attached. EXCHANGE HOTEL, HUNTINGDON. PA. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor. April 2b. :54.-ft. A LOCAL ANP GENERAL NEWSPAPER, DEVOTEQ TO POLITICS, EDUCATION, LITERATURE AND MORALS. ' WORDS.. BY J. 0, HOLLAND. The robin repeats his two beautiful words, The meadow-lark whistles his one refrain; And steadily, over and over again, The same song swells from a hundred birds. Bobolink, chickadee, blackbird and jay, Thrasher and woodpecker, cuckoo and wren, Each sings its word, or its phrase, and then It has nothing further to sing or say. Into that word, or that sweet little phrase, All there may be of its life must crowd ; And low and liquid, or hoarse and loud, It breathes its burden of joy and praise. A little child sits in his father's door, Chatting and singing with careless tongue; A thousand musical words are sung. And he holds unuttcred a thousand more. Words measure power; and they measure thine; Greater art thou in thy childish years Than all the birds of a hundred spheres ; They are brutes only, but thou art divine. Words measure destiny. Power to declare Infinite ranges of passion and thought Holds with the infinite only its lot, — Is of eternity only the heir. Words measure life, and they measure its joy j Thou hast more joy in thy childish years Than the birds of a hundred tuneful spheres, So—sing with the beautiful birds, my boy! Springfield Ma**. Republican, SONGS FOR OUR BABI. XIOHT. The little sparrows have their nest. God gives the pretty creatures rest; He watches o'er the smallest thing That nightly folds its weary wing. Sleep! baby, sleep! The nodding lilies by the stream With fojded petals sweetly dream ; The sleepy daisies in the grass Are winking as the night winds pass. Sleep! .baby, sleep! Now drop tfce fringed and dainty lid O'er "sweetest eyes" that o'er were bid, Aqd leave your darling baby wiles, For angel whispers, dreamy smiles. Sleep! baby, sleep! LETTER FROM THE ARMY. Tho 76th Peniia. Volunteers in Battle—Casu alties in Company E. IK CAMP XEAII PETERSBURG, Ya., J MAY 12, 1804. J" DEAR INQUIRER : Having a few hours leisure time from the fatigues of the march, and entrenchments, I wish to use a small space in your columns for the general informa tion of the friends of Company E, 76th P. V., of Bed ford, as it is impossible for each to write to his own people; and also, as I shall hereafter do, to give you a list of the casualties in Co. E from the late battles wc have fought in Virginia. <- The 76th Regiment sailed from Port Royal on the 20th of April and landed at Gloucester Point, Va., on the 2d inst., where the 18th Corps and the whole of the 10th from South Carolina, had already been in j rendezvous. We lay in camp there until the night of the 4th, when all was ready; surplus baggage all turned in, and sent to Norfolk for storage, taking nothing in the field but shelter tents and the neces- i sary amunitiop, Ac., we embarked and sailed for City Point, on the James river, while a large force marched up the Peninsula to West Point and White House Station. The expedition in force arrived at City Point oi j the evening of the oth and debarked during the night, ! and on the morning of the 6th both Army Corps un der Gen. Butler advanced in force toward the Rich mond and Petersburg ltail Road. We halted and entrenched our position about four miles from the Rail Road., without any opposition. On the morning of the 7th Barton's Brigade of the 10th and the right division of the 18th Corps, ad vanced with but little opposition, nntil within a mile of the Richmond and Petersburg Rail Road, when a Brigade of the enemy under Gen. Borden, who were guarding the road, engaged Gen. Burnham's brigade, and a severe action was kept up until Barton's bri gade, on Burnham's right, pushed forward down from the heights and when within 200 yards of the R. R. emerged from the wood. The enemy turned upon our brigade and with two pieces of urtiliery, from the high hills beyond, poured a most fearful fire upon us. as Burnham's brigade had halted on the heights to shell them. Yet with undaunted spirits our brigade pushed forward, after crossing a deep mill race, and amid deafening yells, planted regimen tal colors on the road, some fifteen minutes before the 48th and 115 th N. Y., came up, and amid a most terrible fire from the infuriated "Rebs," we lay down our guns and taking hold of the "ties" we upturned the track for some 400 yards, while a Yank was up each post of the telegraph, cutting the wires, and thus we cut off their rear communications complete ly; while the roar of artillery told the excited enemy that the Yankees and Butler were only nine miles in rear of Richmond. We had a severe musketry fight with them, after destroying the road, and pushed them back, when we also fell back. Our whole loss is very slight. The 7fith lost 7 killed, 59 wounded and 5 missing. Of Co, E Bone were killed. Corporal Levi Agnew was se verely wounded in the left fore arm, breaking the ulna, Privates John Seader, severely in shoulder; C. Caldwell, foot; Johnson, shoulder; Semon, leg; Preston Miller, leg; Peterman, thigh. Their friends can rest assured that they are well cared for, having been conveyed to City Point and sent on a steamer to Fortress Monroe, none having fallen into the hands of the enemy. Yesterday our cavalry advanced to within seven miles of Petersburg and our forces, on the right, some four miles beyond the Rail Road and destroyed the road for some eight miles and hold their position, the centre having a severe fight at the road with Mc i Grader's forces. We advanced to within four miles of Fort Darling on the south side of James River and shelled the woods in front, but met no resistance. We have secured our position by entrenching and slashing the timbers in front and can now operate from protected base. We have a heavy force here, cavalry and artillery, now passing to the front by Divisions, having just ar rived, We have also glorious accounts from the ar my in front of Richmond, and ace in the most exalted spirits. All is quiet to-day in front except a desultory firing of artillery, but in a few days we will be op the ad vance again, and from every view of matters, we are confident that in a very short time we shall have dealt a staggering blow to rebellion, and hope ere long to meet the triumphant armies of the north and west in the city of Richmond. Onr address is 76th Pa. Volunteers, Co. E, 2d Bri gade, 2d Division, 10th Army Corps, City Point, A'a. I. H. RAWLINS, Sergt. Co. E. BEDFORD, Pa,, FRIDAY, MAY 37, X 864. THE LAST GREAT HOAX. The Prscidnefs Proclamation Fraud. Protest of the Editor* of the "World" and "Journal of Commerce," To the Editor of the fferald : Will you oblige us by publishing in your col umns the following statement of the procedings of the Government this evening toward tho World and the Journal of Commerce, regarding the pub lication in ourHkorning's issue of tho forged proc lamation purporting to be signed by President Lincoln, appointing a day of fasting "and prayer, and calling into military' service 400,000 men. The document question was written on their manifold paper, such as is used for all the de spatches sent to several newspapers of our asso ciation. and had every external appearance and mark to indentify it as a genuine despatch arriving in the regular course of husiness- It was delivered at our office late at night at the time of the receipt of our latest news, too late, of course, for editorial supervision, hut, as it liap-. pened, not before our printing offices were closed. It was delivered at all, or nearly all of the news paper offices, and published in a part of the ntor nlng editions of the Journal of Commerce and World, and, as we are informed, in a part of the editions of one or more of our eonteipporaries. Early this morning the fact that the despatch had not been sent by the Agent of the Associated Press became known to us. and its fraudqlent char acter was at once announced upon our bulletin boards, gnd a reward of five thousand dollars of fered by us for the discovery of the forger. The Executive Committee of the Associated Press al ao offered a similar reward of one thousand dol lars, as the fraud had been attempted to be per]>er trated upon all the journals comprising our asso ciation. Wc took pains in the afternoon to apprise Gen eral Dix of the facts in the ease, and gave him such information in regard to the circumstances of the forgery as might assist him in THE discov ery of its author. The Government was at once put in possession of the facts in the wise. Never theless, this evening General Dix, acting under peremtory orders from the Government, placed eur officers under a strong military guard, and issued warrants for the arrest of the editors and proprietors of tho World and Journal of Com merce, and their imprisonment in Fort Lafayette. A vessel was lying, under steam, at one of the wharves to convey us thither. Chanoipg to meet one of the officers of General Dix's staff, charged with the execution of this or der, we proceeded in his company to the head quarters of the Department of the East, and were informed by General Dix that the order for our arrest had been suspended, but that the order for the suppression of the publication of the World and Journal of Commerce had not been rescinded, and that wc could not be permitted to enter our offices, which continue under the charge of' the military guard. We protest against this proceedings. We pro test against the assumption of our complicity with this shameless forgery, implied in the order for our arrest. We protest against the suppression of our journal for the misfortune of being deceiv ed by a foagery not less ingenuous nor plausible than the forged report of the Confederate Secre tary of War, which Secretary Seward makes the basis of diplomatic action- PRIME, STONE, HALE, k HALLOCK. Journal of Commerce. M ANTON MARBLE, World. New York, may 18, 1864. miitary Oernpaltoii of the '■World" aud "Jour nal of4'oinmerec" OHirrs. Pursuant, as was understood, to orders received last evening from Washington, for the seizure of the offices of the World and Journal of Commerce. the arrest of the publishers and proprietors, and the suppression of the papers, General Dix de tailed a force of the Reserve Guard for the pur pose. At a few minutes before nine o'clock. Lieute nant C. Tuthill. in command of twelve men. ap peared at the World office ; passession was taken of the publication office, a guard placed therin, and the Lieutenant visited the edtiorial and com posing rooms, lie made no arrests, hut directed a cessation of business, and took possession of THE premises. The office of the Journal of Commerce was seized by a detachment of twelve men of the Re serve Corps, under command of Captain Candy, about nine o'clock last evening. Our reporter was informed that Mr. Hallock. one of the proprietors, was arrested at the office, and that officers were despatched to effect the arrest of Messrs. Prime and Stone, the other members of the firm. The office of the Journal was closed, and work was stopped in the composing-room, but. the printing of the weekly was allowed to go on, as it does not contain the forged proclamation. It is stated HV the assistant foreman of the Journal that THE copy of the bogus proclamation was handed into the office aliout 31 o'clock yester morning, when only four men were In the com posing-room. The copy was cut into slips without 1 icing read, and set up by the different hands, who thought they were doing a great thing in getting out so important a document. The editors of the Journal, it is alleged, were all away, and knew nothing of the proclamation until they read it in the paper. It was also stated that the editors had prepared an article, which was set np for publica tion this morning, disavowing all complicity in the matter, and offering a reward of SIOOO for THE dis covery of THE perpetrator of the forgery. THE REWARDS OFFERED. The World offers SSOO for the discovery of the party or parties perpetrating the forgery. " The Journal of Commerce offers a reward of SIOOO for the same. The Associated Press publishes the following: AT an early hour on Wednesday morning a fraudulent Proclamation, signed by the President, was delivered in manuscript to each of the morn ing papers in this city. By direction of tlie Exe cutive Committee of the Press, and with the approval of the publishers of the Journal of Commerce, Tribune, Express, World, Times, Sun. and Herald, the Association will pay a re ward of SIOOO for such evidence as may lead to the conviction of the author of the above-named fraudulent document. D. H, CRAIG, General Agent N, Y. Associated Press. No, 145 Broadway, May 18, 1764. Here are three thousand five hundred dollars ($3500) offered. The messenger who delivered the copies at the different offices was doubtless unaware that he was the tool of traitors. LET him come out at once aud give tie names of his employers. He will gain honor and money.*— Other rewards will doubtless be offered, and all the skill and ingenuity that, detective patriotism pos sesses will be used to discover the vUlanoua per petrator of this scandalous fraud. The above was received ut the Times publication office about 3-30 A. M- The night clerk sent it up to the night editor, who suspected it at once, for several reasons,'viz; —It came without the usu al Associated Press envelope; the hand-writing was strange, not being that of any one known to be connected with the office of the Association; it? addition, the usual nightly indication that every thing was in, had been received from that office fifteen minutes before. These facts were sufficient to cause the suppres sion of the document., but to render the matter positively sure, a messenger was sent to the As sociated office, returned with the statement that the "proclamation" was Logos, and was not promulgated through that office. In the meantime, the night editor of the Daily Naos, suspecting the affair.piad sent to the Times Edito rial Booms to ascertain how the matter was regar ded there, and upon receiving the assurance that it wasundohtedly a forgery, and would not be printed in the Timet, the News also concluded to suppress it, As soon as the copy was recived in the Times' Editorial Rooms, information was sought as to the party who delivered it, but the only thing that could he ascertained was, that a boy had rushed in, thrown it on the counter, and rushed out. Early yesterday morning the World discovered its serious error, aud bulletined a reward of SSOO for the discovery of the forger of the proclama tion. It is also published, in.an extra, a disclaim er and explanation. THE PENNSYLVANIA AGENCY AT WASHINGTON CITY. Important Letter from Gov. Curtin Enlarging its Duties. Intenaats of the Soldiers in the P ield to be Oared P'ox- at tlie Expense of the State. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, ) IIA RU is BURG, May IS, 1804. j COLONEL:— Haying commissioned you as col ore', and Major Gillaiand as lieutenant-colonel, I bug leave to call your attention to the first section of the act ot 4th of May 1864, enlarging the mili tary agency at Washington: "That the agency heretofore established at Washington by the Gov ernor lie enlarged so that the agent and assistant agent shall have the rank, pay and allowances of colonel and lieutenant-colonel respectively, to he paid by the Adjutant-General, and that the duties of the said agency he enlargad so as to include the collection of pay. pensions and bounties due to Pennsylvania volunteers, without, charge or ex pense to such volunteers—and such other duties as the Governor may form time to time direct." In thus reorganizing and enlarging the powers of the agency heretofore established by me, the Legislature intended that all the pay, bounties, pensions and gratuities of the government should te collected for the Pennsylvania volunteer or his family, without charge or expense to hira or them, j V ou will immediately prepare the agency for the performance of these additional duties, and on your requisition, the necessary blanks and books will be provided by the Quartermaster Geueral of the State. As heretofore, Dr. J. A. Phillips, Assistant Surgeon General of the State, will re- { main on duty at the city of Washington, ar,d you j will continue so far as possible to provide in every | way for the comfort and efficiency of our yolun- j teers, the care of the sick and the wounded, for 1 Bending home the bodies of those who may die in ! the service, and to perform all other services that! in your judgement maybe proper and necessary ; for the benefit of the citizens of Pennsylvania ! now tp the military service of the Government. The act of Assembly to which I have referred authorizes me to appoint two clerks when deemed necessary to be employed in the agency. Of such necessity you must be the jupge, and I will ap point clerks on your nomination. The success of the important work thus entrust ed you will depend mainly upon yourself, and I feel assured that you will conduct it in such manner as will give satisfaction to the people of the State, and fulfill all the expectations of the Legislature in the passage of th}s most benevolent act, Very respectfully, Your ob't serv't, A. G. CURTIN. Colonel FRANCIS JORDAN, Agent Pennsylvania, \\ gshington, D. C. ORGANIZE THE MILITIA. Proclamation by the Governor. WHEREAS, circumstances render it not improb able that the President of the United States may, within a -hort time, call on Pennsylvania for Vol unteer Militia for a brief term of service; And whereas, the example of the brave men j now in the field from Pennsylvania, heretofore on | every battle field distinguished for courage and | efficiency, hut who, iu the recent battles in Virginia, have gained au enviable distinction by their deeds of valor and endurance, should stimulate their brothers at home to in reused effort to sustain their country's flag, and terminate the rebellion: Now. therefore. I, Andrew G- Curtin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do make this my Proclamation, earnestly requesting the people of the Commonwealth, willing to respond to such call of the President, to form military or ganizations without delay, that they may not be found unprepared to do so. And Ido further re quest that commanding officers of all military or ganizations, which may he formed in compliance with this Proclamation, do forthwith report the condition of their respective commands, that prompt measures may he taken for getting them into the service in case a requisition should he made by the General Government. Such call, if made, will be for a term of not less than one hun dred days. The troops will he clothed, ariued, subsisted and paid by the United States, and mus tered into the service thereof. Given under my hand and the great seal of the State at Harrisburg, this eighteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and i of the Commonwealth the eighty-eighth. By the Governor, ELI SLIFER, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Female Friends. From Cooctmdama we take the following : It is a wonderful advantage to a man. in every pursuit or vocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible wo man, In a woman there is at once a subtle deli cacy of tact and a plain soundness of judgment which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she is really your friend, will have a sensitive regard fir your character, honor, reputation. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing, for a woman friend desires to be proud of you. At the same time, her constitution al timidity makes her more cautious than your male friend. Bhe, therefore, seldom counsels you to do an imprudent thing. By female friendships, I mean pure friendships—those in which there is no admixture of the passion of love except in the married state. A man's best female friend is a wife of good sense and good heart, whom he loves, and who loves him. If he have that, he need not seek elsewhere. But, supposing a man to be without such a helpmate, female friendships he must, still have, or his intellect will be without a garden, and there will he many an unheeded gap even in its strongest fence. Better and safer, of course, such friendships where disparities of years or circum stances, put the idea of love out of the question. Middle life has rarely this advantage; youth and old age have. We may have female friendships with those much older and those fnuch younger than ourselves. Explosion at Dupont's Powder Mills-—Five Hen Killed. On Tuesday afternoon, the 17th inst., between two and three o'clock, as a number of men were engaged in repairing and layipg down a track for a car in the press mul, at the powder works of E. I. Dupont, De Nemours & Co., near Wilmington, Del., an explosion took place. It appears that one of the carpenters was saw ing a board, and it is supposed that the saw struck fire by comiDg in contact with a n&il. The spark immediately communicated to the powder on the floor, and from thence to a tub containing about two hundred pounds of that article, when a terrific explosion ensued. The mill was entirely destroyed, aud seven persons horribly mutilated. The scene was one of the most heart-rending that could well he imagined. The injured men were burned in a most shocking manner in all parts of the body.— The explosion was very light, and waH not heard at auygreat distance from the place. DESPATCH FROM THE BECTETARY OF WAR. GEN. BI TI.F.H S OPERATIONS. DEFEAT OE GEN. SIGEE. JOHNSTON RETREATING BEFORE SIIER -HAX. WASHINGTON. May 17—9 P. M. Major- General CaduxiUader, Philadelphia, Dispatches from General Butler, just received, report the success of his expediiion, under Gen eral Kautz. to cut the Danville road and destroy the iron bridge across the Appomattox. That, on Monday morning, the enemy in force, under cover of a thick fog, made an attack upon Smith's line, and forced it back in some confusion and with considerable loss ; but, as soon as the fog lif ted, Gen. Smith re-established his line, the ene my wa~sdriven back tojhis original line. At the same time the enemy made an attack from Pe tersburg on Gen. Butler's forces guarding the rear, hut were handsomely repulsed. The troops haying been on incessant duty for five days, three of which were in a rain storm, Gen. Butler retired leisurly within his own lipes. That we hold the railroads between Petersburg and Richmond. — Prisoners state that Bragg and Davis were pres ent on the field. Dispatches from Gen. Sigel, received last even ing, report that on Sunday he fought the forces of Echols and Imbodep, under Breckinridge, PT New Market: tnat the enemy were superior iu number, and that he gradually withdrew from the battle-field and re,crossed the Shenandoah, having lost five pieces of artillery arid about six hundred killed and wounded, and fifty taken pris oners. hut bringing ali his trains and all the wond ed that conld be transported frotu the battle-field. He states that in consequence of the long line and the trains that had to be guarded, lie could not bring more than six infantry regiments into the fight, besides the artillery and cavalry, and that the enemy has about seven thousand infantry, be sides other arms. That his retrograde movement to Ht rasburg was effected in perfect order, without any loss of material or men. He gives ho list of casualities, but Lieutenant-Colonel Lincoln, of' the 34th Massachusetts regiment, is reported to he wounded and captured. No report of any operations of the Army of the Potomac have been received to-day. A dispatch from General Sherman reports his advance upon Johnston as progressing to his sat isfaction. His supplies arc abundant, and our animals are improving on the grass and grain fields, which afford good pasture. (Signed) E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War. JOHN BRIGHT ON ENGLISH JEALOUSY OF THE UNITED STATES, At A dinner in London of Americans and En glishmen interested in the Atlantic telegraph, John Bright made one of his pleasant speeches, in which HO said, among other things; — There are some persons in England who are very jealous of America. It is too big, they think, to govern itself. They, citizens of a country that rules an empire of Ifit) millions of people some thousand miles away, have a most profound opin ion that a compact population of 3U millions is re ally too large for America to govern. (Cheers and laughter. ) This national jealousy is very stu pid, to say the least of it. Although we are not at war. the war in America is producing unfortu na E results, to que branch of T u • commerce IN par ticular, and is stirring up memories which had bet ter been buried forever. (Cheers.) From all this comes— from men. some partially ienorant. some suspicious men of contracted intellect, ignorant of what makes the great and true glory of nations — a great jealousy of the United States. It WAS in apcieut times considered the great glory of U state to plant powerful polonies, and they did not glory the less in them because they become independ ent. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Thus the Uni ted States have been our colonies. They are now truly an independent nation, but still they are our colonies. W hat can be more conteinptabie than a feeliqg OF jealousy of the great nation we our selves have planted on the other side of the At lantic, iu the face of all we are taught in history to value as great and glorious. We have lately heard a great deal of the advan tages of ati universal language ; hut when I look upon the United States, with a population of thir ty millions of people, with peace restored, with government re-established, with schools and clas ses enough fort-he general and religious education of the people. I feci that in the short space of ten years that nopulatson will grow to such a degres that even in the lifetime of our children we shall have the English language spoken by one hqndred millions of free people. (Cheers.) * What A mag nificent contemplation that is. (Loud cheers.) — If Ichance to go further, to the Australian colo nies, there, too. are our institutions, and there the English language is spoken, as it is in the United States. And then if 1 come to :>ur vast depend ency in the East, inhabited by 150,000,000 oi peo ple, among ail of whom the Engli.-h language is extending its influence, we shall have the educated people of Hindustan. in the course of 20 or 30 years .should the co nnectioncontipueso long, also speaking in cur tongue. ( Hear, head.) IN South AFRICA, too. the english language is making jts way ; so that this language, in which the greatest men who ever lived have written and spoken, is be ing universally extended, by the help of commerce and civilization, until it promisesto licit the world. (Cheers.) This being so, 1 want to know why men keep up a spirit of cavil and of jealousy be tween the two nations. 1 cannot conceive any man I more thoroughly an enemy not oply to his own country but to humanity itself, thap he who lends himself to create and keep alive this animosity be tween the United States and this more anciept English nation. (Cheers.) What Wf Cajt Save. Our annual importations pf silk? arc $27,500,- 0.00; of laces $1,500,000; of embroideries $4,500,- 000; of wipes, spirits and cigars, about $4,000,000 each —making a total of these luxuries of dress and appetite, alone, of nearly FIFTY MILLIONS OF DOL- L4s. Now, we can do without all these; we can wear American silks, delains, muslins, ginghams, ar,d other dress goods: we can drink cider, native wines, and whiskey—if we must; can smoke home cigars—if we will. Let us, then, all, men and wo men, "enlist for the war," as the soldiers do; while they fight the rebels, we may certainly fight out vanity and our appetites, and "TOTALLY AB STAIN" from all foreign luxuries. We do not preach economy. Let cyerv man and woman spend as freely as they can and choose; but let the money go for American labor, for American pro duction. for American safety and glory! Millions for Amerjca— not one cent far Europe. That is the motto for the hour. BIAIR COCNTY POLTTIGF —-The County Con vention met on Tuesday, the 17th inst., and was organized by the election of John Havs, Pres., and A. C. Demand B. Lorcnz,Sec., L. W.llallof Al toona, carried the Conferees for congress. S. R. McCune, of Frankstown tp., for the Legislature; Jos. Robeson, of Frankstown tp., for Sheriff; A. S. Morrow, for Prothonotary ; David Stiteler, of Frankstown tp., for Treasurer. Up to the time we got to press the Convention is still in session and is not through with the nominations for other officers. A minority of the Convention entered a protest against Mr. Dull, and recommended the nomination of a man from one of the other Counties. Next week we will give the proceedings of the Convention in full, and a more extended notice of the candidates.—lMli daysburg Register. Vol. 37: No. QQ. (From the New York Observer.) THE U, S. T*?o HUNDRED MILLION FIVE PER CENT. LOAN. Tills loan is limited to two hundred millions, and is being rapidly subscribed for by the people. A moderate portion of this amount has been taken for Europe, and any reasonable portion of re maining amount that the Secretary of the Treasury might be willing to designate, could be placed on the other side, with or without making the interest payable in London instead of New York, on highly advantageous terms, thus giving the command of a large amount of sterling exchange (10 per cent, better than gold, as ratos are eaculated here,) throagh the Summer months. He has never yet entertained such propositions for his popular loans. His preference is that our people should have the entire advantage of the gold interest which they bear, or else the premium on their Bonds, such as can now be had on the 5,30s when bought for Europe. The present object, therefore, is ptpuJur distribution at funnc, at par, op five per cent, gold interest, equal to 7j or 8 jier cent in eurrencv with gold at 150 and 160 per cent. The Act of Congress specially provides that the principal of these Bonds shall be paid in gold. If paid off after ten years with the economical view of re-borrowing at three or tour per ccut. ipterest —for after the war of 1812 this governmept !sir rowed money in Europe at three per cent. —the payment will lie made in gold. < >n this and all other funded stocks of the United States, there is a specific pledge of the Customs Revenue in gold, for the continued pavmept of the ipterest in gold. The customs and duties, thus pledged for the payment of the interest and Gradual extinction of I the principal—through annual purchases for the smkuig fund—of the funded public debt of the J T. niUid States, constitute a system of indirect tax- I atioq, to which the people are and always have [ been accustomed. It falls upon the people onlv in proportion to their ability or inclination to con sume foreign wares and merchandise, upon which these duties are levied. As they elect to forego the use of foreign luxuries, so they lighten their own burthen of the public debt, even while in vesting their means in ir at rates and on a security superior to any other stock, for uniform and as sured income (free of local taxes}, in the whole country. The last, fiscal year, to June 30, 1863, this souroe of revenue amounted to $09,059,642. The gold interest on the public debt then amount ed to only $24,729,846, and the principal of the • old loan pf 1842, $3,250,000, was paid off in gold, in addition. The present fiscal year, ending on the 30th June, 1864, will show at least 40 per cent, increase in gold customs, say $90,683,39,8, on a gross impor tation of less than 20 per cent, increase over last year. TljC gold interest eg the present funded and fuudable debt, for the current fiscal year, will not exceed $47,735,650, leaving a surplus of nearly fifty millions of gold from customs over the spe < ifiecharge for interest upon theqi; part of which surplus the Secretary has readily disposed of at 165 per cent , for green backs, the principal as well as premium of which will go to the benefit of the §itikiqg Fund, and to the reduction of the curren cy iqtorest on *he temporary debt, such as one year certificates of indebtedness, certificates of deposit, &e. That this statement may not seem overdrawn, we annex a schedule of the funded debt and 7.30 per cent, treasury notes, soon to pass into funded debt by voluntary conversion, on which gold inter est is now being paid : Funded Debt of the United /Statesto Jl lareh 3, 1864. l-OANS. RATK. AMOCST Popular 5-20 Loan 6 per cent ....$51(1,774.000 7-:S0 per cent. Loan 3 7-30 per pent. 138.348,90(1 Limn of 1801. July, 6 percent 51,652,000 Loan of }B6l. Feb., 6 per cent 18,415,000 I.ouns of 1858-60, 5 per cent. 27.022,000 Loans of 1847-48 fi per cent 18.323,000 Loan of ISSO 5 per cent, 3.415.000 Oregon Loan, 1861, 6 per cent 1,016,000 Total $768,965,000 Annual interest in g01d,.... ~....547,735,650 *At 6 per cent. Stock after 1861. This interest charge upon the same amount of funded debt will be reduced the next fiscal year in the sum of $1,798,524. by the conversion of the 7. 30 per cents of 1864, in August and October, into the 6 per cents of 1881, leaving the interest charge upon the same $768,965,000 only $45,937,126, for the next fiscal year, when, under the increased rates of customs duties now immediately contem plated by Congress, the gold revenues, on the same volume of gross importations as in 1864, will be raised to $1 10,000,000 or $1 i5,000,Q00 Vengeance Sworn Against the Fort PiJlow Murderprs. The Memphis Jlplletin gives the following ac count of a scene at Fort Pickering near that place, on the 3d. on thp oecasiop of the arrival of the widow of Major Jjooth:— Col. Jackson qf the 6th S. heavy artillery had his regiment formed into line for her recep tion. In front of the centre stood fourteen men, as fine, brave fellows as tread (he earth- They were tip? remnant of the firs) hattplioti of the ret giment pow drawn up—all v.'io had escaped the fiendish scenes of Fort Piiloyr. scenes that have stamped yet deeper blackness or, the infamous brow of treason. Mrs. Booth eaiue forward. In her haijd she bore a flag. red and dotted with hu man Wpod. She took a position in front of the fourteen heroes, so lately under her deceased hus band's command. Tbje ranks before her observed a silence that was full pf solemnity. Many a har dy face showed by twitching of lids and humid eyes how the sight of the l>ereared lady touched IfO.-oms that could meet steel, and drew on the fountain of tears that had remained dry even amid the piteous sights witnessed on the battlp-field after a fierce action. Turning to the jueq before her. she said: '"Boys. 1 hare just come In,in a yisic to the hos jiital at Mound ('it v. There 1 saw your comrades; wounded at the bloody struggle in Fort Pillow.— There I found this flag—you recognize it. One of your comrades saved it from the insulting touch of traitors at Fort Pillow! I have given my coun try all I had to give—my husband—snch a gift! Yet I have freely given him for freedom and my country. Next my husband's cold remains, the next dearest object, left me in the world is this flag—the flag that waved in proud defiance over the works of Fort Pillow! Soldiers, this flag I give to you, knowing that you will ever remember the last words of my noble husband : "Never sur render the flag to traitors !" Col. Jackson then received from her hand, on behalf of his command, the blood-stained flag,— lie called upon the regiment to receive it as such a gift ought to be received. 4-t that call he and every man of tlje regiment fell upon their knees, and, solemnly appealing to the Clod of battles, each one swore to avenge their brave ftpd fallen comrades, and never —never to surrender tjie flag to traitors! The scene was one never surpassed in emotional incident. Beside the swift veiling waters of the Mississippi—within the inclosure that bristled with the aeath-dealirig eanqon, knelt, these rough soldiers, whose bosoms were heaving emotion, and ou many of whose cheeks quivered a tear they tried to hide, though it did honor to their mauly natures. Beside them stood in her grief, the widow of the loved officer they had lost —and above them was held the bloody flag—that eloquent record of crime, which has capped the climax of rebellion, and which will bring a reckon ing so fearful. In few hut pointed gpd incisive words, Col. Alexander pledged himself and his command to discharge to the uttermost the sol cmn obligation of justice they had that day taken. Col. Kup pan followed him. expressing himself in favor of such retaliatory acts as justice and laws of warfare require in a case of such fiendish and wicked cruelty. Woe to the unlucky reb who falls into the nands of any of the commands rep resented at this solemn declaration.
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