- -———Odß^niSnF(3l)^Sr 9 gPHwm™? ®®t^?psf 9 --- . ;.., w r hoie No. 2677. T H E G A Z ET T E. LEWISTOWN, I'A. Wednesday, September 17, 1862. jl per aiinnia in alvanec—sUo nt end of sis raonilis—at cud of year. Paper* *oo' out of tlio County rnnet be paid for in advance. We h:iv- a!* set a limit in Miftllti county, beyond wlilch we Intern! 110 mau in future shall owe us for subscript lon. Those receiving the paper with this paragraph Marked, will therefore know that they have come under our rule, and if payment Is not made within one month therearttr •.-shall discontinue all such. Flag of the eeheart's only homo, By l—iui.-i l—iui.-i to valor given! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome And all thy hues wore Born m heaven; Forever float that standard sheet! Where Breathes the foe hut fails before u* ttjfh fr-e,h>m's soil Beneath our feet. And freedom's Banner streaming o'or us. PEOPLE'S UNION STATE TICKET. For Auditor General, Hon, THOMAS E. COCHRAN. Surveyor General: WILLIAM S. ROSS, of Luzerne County. Congress, SAMUEL S. BLAIR, Of Blair County. Senator, XIltK HAINES, of Perry County. Assembly, HOLMES MACLAY, of Armagh. Commissioner, SAMUEL DRAKE, of Wayne. Prothonatory, NATHANIEL C. WILSON, McVeyfu. Surveyor. TIIO3. F. NEICB. District Attorney, . >IIN A. McKEE (by acclamation.) Auditor, HENRY L. CLOSE, Armagh. Ij The I)elegalos lo the i'eo plUs Union County Convention will re-assemble in the Town Hail, Lewistown, on Saturday, iOili September, at one o'clock p. in., tor the purpose of nomina ting a candidate for Register and Recorder. Our Danger. i he recent events on our border show .'-hit Pennsylvania must rely on her own resources for defence. 11*1 the rebels in tended a raid into this State, or exhibited half the audacity they did in Maryland, no man who has any knowlelgc of the country along the line, can doubt that both the Pennsylvania and North Central rail roils could have been seriously injured. Where these points are it is unnecessary to state, but the fact that rebel cavalry were within four hours gallop of the North Cen tral, and within a day's ride of an impor tant point on the Pennsylvania, with tin troops whatever at one and but a few scat tered guards at the other, ought to impress upon our rulers that the Potomac ought never to be suffered to be crossed by the rebels, snd if the niiltary genius's at Wash ington cannot prevent it, let Pennsylvania nd the loyal men of Maryland do it. Our swn State we verily believe can easily fur nish 20,000 patriotic men who will in turn take a three months tour of duty in that -"egion. fiW&,Although we are within a few days march where rebel hordes are endeavoring 'o overthrow our liberties and despoil our property, the office-hunting hacks of party continue their foul trade. To-day, when it would be far -better for all capable of rearing arms to be acquiring skill to defend '-heir homes than to listen to political har anc'ues, a democratic mass meeting is to assemble in Lewistown ! We shall see tfhat kind of a "mass" it will be, g,nd wc see too who at this time attends such gatherings. are compelled this week to issue a half sheet, having now but one hand left the office, or fail in furnishing a paper duy. O ur readers however as Sfitch news as usual Support the Government. lhe jireatnt is no tin.3 to discuss the ; claim* of counties or of men to nominations ; for office, and we would therefore simply I impress upon the minds of voters that by far the safest course for all patriotic men to pursue is to put those in office who give the most hearty and most unequivocal sup port to the National aud State Adminiatra i tiotis. As remarked by Messrs. Dickinson ud Henry—the former a democrat of un questioned integrity and the latter a sound j I nion man—we .must support the gov kUSMRM', or we may look ior still greater . troubles than have alroady afdicted our country. To suppose that men, however honest in purpose, who affiliate and act with the Vallandigham class of dema gogues, will givi as hearty a support to j President Lincoln and the war as those who ' stood by him without equivocation in j the terrible ordeals he has passed through | since Buchanan and his traitorous crew ub dicated the government, is to suppose a moral improbability, for these men, with i here and there honorable exceptions, icill j act as party mm, an 1 under pretence tf : '-the constitution as it is and the Union as it was," ihe stale and infamous cry of ••ab olition," or some other catchwords so indus triously taught then for years by the now j rebel leaders, may do incalculable injury, j Our readers will hear us witness that we ! have more than once predicted that if the | Buchanan demagogues persisted in their mad schemes of piftty, that Pennsylvania would yet become the battleground of con • tending armies, and how near this came to . be realized the history of the east few • weeks will tell. Their aetj and cutiversa -1 tion have afforded indubitable evidence that their sympathies and L?e!in.:s have been with the rebel leaders—that they were wil ling to restore them to p wer for the sake of party—and that if they are apparently more patriotic than formerly, it is because j the loyally of the masses of the democrat i ic party lus driven thein into such a puii i tion. To entrust these men, and those whom (hey s? sedulously support as part / < / di dates on the ground that party must be kept up, is at best an experiment and put ting in jeopardy our existence as a nation. Lot any well meaning citizen u.-k himself the question what the effect would be in Europe if the news should . o forth (hut Pennsylvania had, by a majority of voters, given expression against the w.tr measures of our patriotic President by electing a ma jority to the State Legislature and to Con gress of pa r ty men who had openly opposed his administration ? Would not France and England think it time to rec ognize the Southern Confederacy,and would not recognition mean armed intervcuti n ? Would not rebeldo'T ring with shouts that Abraham Lincoln, the man whom they most hated, together with his efforts to pre serve our nationality, had been condemned by the great State of Pennsylvania? Most assuredly such would be the effect, and we say to him who has been and stiii is stir ring up party strife, let him beware of the hour when that consummation approaches, for in our opinion, and it is one not lightly formed, it will fx- the dentil knell of this na tion and of this government ftesT"The Democrat has sundry slurs at the Ornish for exercising a constitutional privilege. That paper is a great stickler for the constitution when a nigger is con cerned, but when a white man comes under it, its provisions are all wrong! Every Ornish, Tunker, or other men of that stamp in this county ought to repay this insult by for once attending the polls to a man, aud giving the hypoc itical patent democracy, of which the Democrat is a lair represen tation, a taste Qf the ballot box. That will make the whole gang howl, and touch them in their most sensitive part. Stramjer in Town. —We have been gratified by a call from Frederick Ayer, Esq., the bu siness man of the firm of J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell. A short acquaintance with tlie gen tleman convinces us that not the Doctor's skill in compounding his medicines is alone con cerned in the consumption of them ; but that it takes business tolent of no ordinary measure to pass them around the world. Mr. Ayer, manifestly, has these abilities and the success of his house shows that he uses them. —Memphis Whig, Teun. Worrall acknowledges the kind ness of the ladies of Kishacoquiilis Valley in sending to Alexandria Va., a box of bandages for the use of the Hospital. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1862. W A R NEWS, The Invasion of Maryland. r roia the crude accounts published within the past ten days, which created so much excitement in Pennsylvania, we are at last able to glean something like the truth, 'iho rebel forces were variou-ly estimateu Iroin fiity to three hundred thou sand men, but the Baltimore American says an intelligent gentleman, who was in Frederick city the whole time of the rebel occupation and saw their rearguard passing on their way to Hagerstown, estimates that the whole number of rebels who passed through Frederick did not exceed thirty thousand. Other columns may have srone forward by different routes, but lie is confi dent that the number of their forces on this side of the Potomac has Leon exaggerated. lie is also fully convinced, though the rebels wore frank in declaring that they were bound fur Pennsylvania, that such was their purpose, but that after gath ering all the supplies within their reach, they would make for Virginia through Ha gerstown and \Y illanisport and thence to Maviinsburg. file rebels have with them fifteen hundred empty wagons, which there is no doubt was their purpose to fill. V hilst in Frederick our informant heard reports, coining from the rebels, that a di vision of their forces under Gen. Boring had attempted to assault our position at Har pers berry, and had been defeated with great slaughter by our forces ucuer Col. Miles. 1 here had undoubtedly been an en gagement there, as the cannonading could be heard at Frederick. A small rebel cavalry furce occupied Westminster, Carroll county, twenty-eight miles from Baltimore, on Thursday night. i heir conduct was generally orderly, and no injuries were inflicted upon the people or the town. The post office was searched and some stamps carried off. The enroll me: t lists of the county, prepared in view of tire draft were also seized and destroyed. They purchased liberally at the stores, paying in Baltimore and .-outhcrn money. i lie party left the town at eleven o'clock next morning, after de-troylng a small bridge on the Western Maryland Railroad. Iho destruction ol the westernmost [tier oi the railroad bridge at the Mouoeacy is confirmed. It was blown up on Monday morning. Ihe in formation from (Jen. McOleilin's army shows that it has been ;n active movement towards the line of the Monoc aey. In this movement there had been -orne skirmishing and cavalry encounters, but no serious engagement, the plan of the rebels apparently not including a prolonged stay at Frederick or a defence of that point. Gen. Burnside, who holds the right oi the army, was on the Frederiel turnpike, be tween Poolesville and Ridgeville, on Thurs day, and early nest day the advance under Gen. Hooker was within four miles of the city. They entered it during the day. By ail accounts it appears that wherever they visited the shoe and clothing stores were completely bought out with confeder ate money. Their next visit was to llagorstown, but four miles from the Pennsylvania line, with the Cumberland \ alley open before them. Here too storekeepers and others suffered considerable losses, so much so that it is hoped their secession proclivities have been effectually cured by their experience of Jef. Davis's beneficent government. Since then we have had daily reports of fighting, but nothing authentic until the despatches from Gen. McClellan were re ceived. A dispatch from Gen. McGlellan, dated three miles beyond Middletown, September 14—D.40 p. iu., says : After a very severe engagement the corps of Gens. Hooker and Reno have carried the heights commanding the Hagerstown road. The troops behaved magnificently. They never fought better. Gen. Franklin has been engaged on the extreme left. Ido not yet know the result except that the firing indicates progress on his part. The action continued till after dark and terminated leaving us in posses sion of the entire crest. It has been a glorious victory. I cannot yet tell wheth er the enemy will retreat during the night or appear in increased force in the morning. I regret to add the gallant and able Gen. Reno is killed. A second dispatch dated September 15, 8 a. rn., says : I have just learned from Gen. Hooker in the advance, who states that the infor mation is perfectly reliable that the enemy i m iking for the river in a perfect panic, and (.Jen. Lee last night stated publicly that he must admit they had been shock Wgly whipped. ) I am hurrying everything forward to en aeav rto p;ess their retreat to the utmost. A third dispatch, dated at Bolivar, Sept 15, 10 a. m., fays: Information has this moment been re ceived confirming the rout and demoraliza tion of the rebel army. Gen. Lee is ro polled wounded and Gen. Gland wouuded. Gen. Hooker alone has over 1,000 more prisoners, 700 having been sent to Freder ick. It is stated that General Lee gives his loss at 15,000. We are following as rapidly as the men can move. V e have little news this morning. Gov. Curtin stated last evening at Harrisburg that he had just received a dispatch from the War Department, in which he was as sured that Gen. McClellan was in a most important position nearSharpsburg. Gen. McCieilati had Gens. Longstreet, Jackson and Fwell, who had a combined force of over 03,000 men under their command, completely iti his power, and was only wait ing for the morning fog to disappear before ho commenced and he wa.s con fident that lie could cither force them to surrender or ann hilate their combined for ces at will. Cannonading had since becu heard. The fullowiug extracts from the official report of Gen. Pope, uuless disproved, go far to show that there lias been something wrong. Lot the truth be known. HEADQUARTERS ARMY or VIRGINIA, ) September 3, i 862. j General —l have the honor to submit the following brief sketch of the operations of this army since the 9th of August: I moved from Sperryville, Little Washing tun and Warrenton, with the corps of Banks and Sigel, and one division of M d'owell's corps, numbering in all thirty two thousand men, to meet the enemy, who had crossed the Rapidan, and was advancing on (Julpe per. The movement toward Uordonsville had completely succeeded in drawing off a large force from Richmond, and in relieving the Army of the Potomac from much of the dan ger which threatened its withdrawal from the Peninsula The action of Aupust 9, at Cedar Moun tain, with the fore -s under Jackson, which Compelled Ins retreatacross the Rapidan, made necessary still further reinforcements of the enemy from Richmond; and by this time, it i being apparent that the Army of the Poto- i mac was evacuating the Peninsula, the whole j force of the enemy concentrated around Rich- ! m-itid was pushed forward with groat ranidity j to crush the Army of \ irginia before the for j ces evacuating the Peninsula could be united | wt'i; it. I remained at Cedar Mountain, arid ' still threatened to cross tne Rapidan, until toe I7t!i o: August, by whirii time General ' Robert Leo had assembled in my front, and j within eight miles, ;r!v the whole Rebel \ army. As soon as I nscrtnined tiiis fact, | an ! knew that the army i i the Potomac was i no longer in urrection at the last day. CIOME and buy your Mackerel