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BEDFORD PA.. FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1884,
foh PRfl&wSitfr,
ABRAHAM MSSCOL3R of Illinois.
FOR VICE fKESIDEKT,^
AA3REW JOIHSOX, of Tennewrfe.
UNION COWTY TICKET.*
("•PNftRJESS
FRANCIS JORDAN.
I'KKSIDENT JUDUK,
ALEXANDER KING.
LEGISLATURE,
D. T5. 'ARMSTRONG.
.COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
ABRAM H. HULL.
POOR DIRECTOR.
ASA STUCKEi".
AUDITOR,
EMANUEL J. DIEIIL
IfciCThe general situation of military affairs is
improving. Grant Has demanded the surrender
of Petersburg. If it is not surrendered he will
shell and destroy the city. Heavy firing was
heard on Tuesday at Fortress Monroe in the direc
tion of Petersburg. Wilson's cavalry, sent out
to cut and destroy the railroads south and west of
Richmond and Petersburg, has returned, after
utterly destroying seventy miles of the three most
important railroads to the enemy in Virginia.—
Ihe Danville and Richmond, the Lynchburg and
Petersburg, and the Petersburg and Weldon rail
roads. AH of the supplies for Richmond had
been brought over these roads. Their destruction
is a severe injury to the failing cause of the rebels.
There are various rumors of a rebel rebel raid
through Maryland into the Cumberland Valley.—
The enemy was in considerable force at Ilagers
town on 3\ ednesday afternoon. Great alarm and
excitement prevails in Franklin county. The roads
are filled wi h cattle and horses from Maryland and
the valley, moving north in the direction of Ilar
risburg. 3V edo not think the rebels arc in large
force. Though no doubt there are enough of them
to commit great havoc wherever they go. Gen.
Sherman has been successful in his operations a
gainst Johnson s Rebel Army on Konesaw Moun
tain, eausing him to evacuate that position, and
giving the Union troops the possession of Marietta,
Ga.,whicn is only about twenty miles frmnJAtlanta.
The enemy was in full retreat when the dispatch
from Gen. Sherman was written, and his army
Mas in rapid pursuit. Dispatches from Memphis
announce the deteat of the Rebels under Gen.
Shelby at St. Charles, AT' a isa?, We took two
hundred prisoners, recaptured the guns taken
from the gunboat Ocean Queen, arid aho four
mountain howitzers.. Shelby and Marmaduke's
forces are said to be retreating, and White river
is again unobstructed.
The Baltimore American says of the destruc
tion of the Alabama:—''Scarcely an event except
that of a decisive victory won in the field by one
of our great armies, could have brought more
pleasure to the loyal heart of the nation than that
which our foreign advices this morning record—
the destruction of the Rebel pirate steamer Ala
bama by the United States gunboat Kearsage.—
The point of regret in this brilliant affair is that
the destruction of the entire pirate crew was not
as complete as that of the ship, and especially that
Semmes, through a despicable trick on the part
of the commander of the Britishyacht Deerhound,
was enabled to obtain the protection of the Eng
glish flag.
We publish this week the proclamation for the elec
tion on the first Tuesday in August. The object of
the election si principally to decide whether the con
stitution of the Btan: shall be amended so as to allow
soldier# out of their election districts to vote. Per
haps our readers may lie disposed to doubt our state
ment that an effort will be made in this county by the
Democrats to defeat this amendment. They believe
the soldiers will generally vote against them, as well
as against all measures favoring the schemes of Jeff
Davis. It is but natural therefore, that they should
oppose the amendment. The passhge of this amend
ment will hurt the rebels in arms. A blow that hits
hard on the rebels in arms, will hurt the Dmeocrats
not in anus. Why should not they oppose the
amendment ? The friends of the soldiers right -to
a franchise so dear to every freem.iu should not be
found wanting in vigilance.
Sectktabt Chase nas resigned his position at the
heat! of the Treasury. Wtn. Pitt Fessenden U. S.
Senator from Maine lias been appointed in his stead.
Mr Chase's resignation at this time is a subject of re
gret, on many accounts. He has been unswerving
and firm throughout all the vicissitudes growing out
of this war. When others have faltered arid hesitated,
he has stood staunch and true to the Union and free
dom. We could have wished he had remained at
his post and guide safely through the storm so long
threatening the good ship of State. We can only
console ourselves with the reflection that his succes
sor is worthy m every respect to succeed him. Al
ready we see that the typpointrnent of Mr. Fesstn
den is received with favor and confidence alike by
the friends and enemies of the administration.
Mr. D. B. Armstrong, has appointed Hon. Geo.
W. Householder, Geo. W. Williams Esq., and Mr.
8. A. Gump as his conferees to meet the conferees
■of Kukoa tyid Somerset. The time of meeting of
the conferees is not fixed, but we suppose it will be
early.
Twelve Thousand Men called out.— ln o
bedienee to & requisition made by the President
upon Pennsylvania, Governor Uurtiu has issued
& proclamation./sailing for twelve thousand militia
volunteer infantry, to serve at Washington and
vicinity for one husdred days, unless sooner dis
charged. They are to be used to do guard duty
and in the fortifications, relieving the veterans
for active duy in the field.
The Old Flacl—This paper of which an ad
vertisement is given in the Inquirer, will propably
be one of the best campaign papers published.—
It is getting a large circulation iu the neighboring
.•out: ties. We think it might be made very use
ful in Bedford county. The terms are very low,
ad with a little effort clubs could be raised at
-ever; P. O. in the county.
. Usngress adjourned last Monday.
• rt is forever Abolished in Maryland. J
THE NOMINATIONS FOR CONGRESS.
The Union Candidate!? for congress in this dis
trict are, Col. Francis -lonian, of Bedford, and
Gen. Win. H. Koontz, of Somerset. Others are
spoken of, but these ISti Gentlemen are most
prominently before the public; and it is geuerally
conceded that one of them will be the nominee.
Gen Komtz, is an able man. very popular
throughout the whole district, and especially iir
his own county. Ills integrity is beyond question;
If nominated he will be very heartily supported
in this county, by the Union men.
But every thing said in behalf of Gen. Koontz
as a candidate fully applies to Col. Jordan with
the important am! essential addition in favor of
Col. Jordau of a larger experience. Col. Jordan
has been favorably known in every part of this
district for years, as an able lawyer and public
man. He is known too over the whole state, and
is regarded as one of the strongest men in it. If
elected to Congress, lie would at once take a posi
tion of influence there, that a young uian fresh in
practical experience of great public affairs, would
require many years to attain to. Bedford, we
think has other claims to the nomination than the
especial fitness of the candidate presented. It is
twelve years since Bedford has had a representa
tive in Congress.
In some parts of the district, outside of this
county, a curious notion prevails that because a
candidate for President judge, is presented from
this county and likely to receive the nomination
of the judicial conferees, qf course we cannot ex
pect the congressional nomination at the time.
Therew ould be some force in the idea, if the ju
dicial district and the congressional district, were
precisely the same. The mere fact, that, there
happens to be several counties in the one that
belong to the other, does not seem to us of any
account, in influencing the choice of candidate.—
Speaking of the Union nominations in this county,
tire Pittsburg daily Gazette says;
We earnestly hope that the conferees of the
Congressional district to which Bedford county
belongs will have the wisdom to nominate Frank
Jordan for Congress. He is just the man to de
feat the Copperhead Coffroth, and is, niorever,
one of the ablest men in the State. His honesty,
too is above suspicion. In this crisis Pennsylva
nia ought to send her best men to Congress, and
Col. Jordan is one of them.
The Harrisburg TeUgroph speaks of Colonel
Jordan in terms of very high praise: but falls in
to the error of supposing that he has already re
ceived the disrict nomination—a view of the case
that probably General Koontz and Somerset, will
not acquiece in, any sooner than may be necessary.
,The following is from the Telegraph;
\\ e referred to the fact, a few days since, that
CoL ¥ rancis Jordan had been nominated for Con
gress in the Bedford Congressional District; but
we consider that the gentleman selected for so im
portant a position deserves something more than
a mere passing notice. In point of ability, per
sonal integrity and political purity, Col. Jordan
has no superior in the Commonwealth. As the
Bedford District, is now represented, it is a dis
grace not only to its constituency, hut a humilia
tion to the State at large. We earnestly trust,
therefore, that Col. Jordan may be induced to ac
cept the nomination thus offered him, and that he
will appear before the people, in advocacy of the
issues involved in the coming contest. If he does
that, he can defeat any man whom the copper
heads can nominate.
THE COXSCRIPTIO.Y.
*
Human nature is truly a sublime and beautiful
study. No theory of Christianity, or philosophy,
or ethics has afforded the millions who think so
wide a scope for their deep researches as this one
small principle of the vast whole. Every feature
which adonis the world, or appeals to the nobler
impulses, nave here found expressions of apprecia
tion or denunciation. And when we for an instant
remember the sligbtr.ess of the attending circum
stances which impel man to riot in unexcelled
praises, or to overflow with the bitterness of gall,
we are compelled to exclaim against the weakness
which governs this very inconsiderate sphere. Men
in their weakness endeavor to portray the weak
nesses of others, forgetting that they are types
themselves of what they attempt to portray. No
class of men so fully illustrate this .theory as the
wily, or, if you please, the wiry politician, whose
sole and only motives are self or the elevation of
his particular party. He. in his heartlessness, ex
ults in anything that will redound to the injury of
his antagonists, or the immediate advantage of his
political friends, even if the means should be reach
! Ed through the destruction of thousands of his
fellow beings. So it i? reached, that is all sufficient.
It may behoove him to lament over the misfortunes
of others and lie may shed tears, collusive tears,
to deeeive the unwary and unthinking, but the
uncovered heart, divested of its guile, tells us that
political preferment and advancement is the secret
spring, fountain, from which gush all his inspira
tions.
It is but a few days since we were forcibly and
irresistibly reminded of the correctness of our
views in this respect, in perusing a delectable par
tizan sheet, ranking with the venom of the most
poisonous reptile, under the heading of the
'"Beauties of the Conscription." Here an effort
to appeal to the wicked prejudices of the partisan
were laboriously and insinuatingly attempted,
based upon the advantages afforded by the com
mutation clause in the Conscription Bill; a clause
against which this paper railed in the most vehe
ment and abusive language, with the most boister
ous and terrifying threats, instigating barn-burn
ings and other demonstrations of resistance to
the legally constituted autnorities. Had the soul
of an honest man peered out from beneath the
mask of this unsceming and reckless demagogue,
who does not allow an opportunity to escape to
malign the sincere efforts of patriotism aud right,
we could pray as sincerely, honestly and devoutly
for peace as he can, but the knave who subordi
nates tlie heavenly qualities with which man has
has been endowed, for the visible, plainly visible
purpose of bolstering up an ungenerous, unprinci
pled and unpatriotic party.we arc compelled to turn
from le-t we might be contaminated. We under
stand this olatnorons and unjustifiable appeal. We
know that it docs not mean the "peaceful ballot;"
a soothing clause thrown in to wash down the un
datable whole. Look at it: "The peaceful ballot
must be our weapon." Who can read the article and
say that it was not an after thought to incorporate
this sentence, instigated by the fear lest it might i
savor too strong of sedition. We pity the man who
w ills but dare not.
One word. Bedford connty has been terribly con
scripted after having sent more than her full quota
to the field, flan any honest man say that these men
could not have been procured and accredited to us
if the Commissioners had paid a liberal bounty ?
X'o. Then let the "aged mother," the "weeping
wife," the "consumptive"' and the "epeleptie" turn
their just indignation upon those who are the willing
authors of all their'misery. A few thousand dollars
would have saved us, but democracy had the power,
and it must leave its curse. **
THE President ha* proebimcd martial LAW in Ken
tucky.
From'the .V. 1 . Trllnne.
NO COMMUTATION—CLOSING UP.
Congress succeeded, late on Saturday night, in
perfecting tie new Conscription bill. Under this
act, drafts isiay be made for oue, two or three
vear.s; bounties of $ JW, S2OO, and S3OO, are to
I>e awarded for one. two and three years' service
respectively. Commutation is no more; but every
one drafted may serve in person or by substitute,
and fifty days' notice must be given before enforc
ing the draft, Each State is at liberty to obtain
substitutes hr (be States in insurrection end have
them Credited rtrt her qticfta.' We do not see how
the act could have been rendered more lenient, if
the paramount object of recruiting our armies is
to bo kept in view.
When the first Conscription Act was passed, we
heartily appro red and sustained the Commutation
therein embodied. So long as tbe Government
could find substitutes for ssoo, it. was wist; and right
to accept that sum instead of personal service and
use it to obtain a willing instead of an unwilling
soidier. I bit times have c hanged, compelling a
change in the laws. The War Department, which
at first held the S3OO, a full equivalent for person
al service, now reports a vitally changed state of
facte. Labor is scarce and wages high, so that
money is largely paid in as commutation, and the
S3OO each will no longer procure recruits to the
extent required. The Rebels have called out
every white male who can carry a musket; so that
our Generals now regard them across their very
last ditch. Butjthe waste of the campaign has
been very .great; and we need replenished ranks
to finish the work. To obtain them it is essen
tial that a call lie now made which will bring not
money bu,t men. Hence the new law.
When the first act was passed, the S3OO com
mutation was made the chief ground of objection
to it. The Copperhead organs fairly howled at
the idea of compelling tbe poor to serve and let
ting off those rich enough to pay S3OO. The
bloody and brutal Jeff. Davis Hiots in our city
last Summer were in good part, evoked and kept
alive by clamor against the S3OO exemption.—
But, from the moment wherein the War Depart
ment decided to ask for a repeal of the commu
tation clause, every Copperhead in Congress has
fought against repeal, and it has now been carried
over tbe votes of them all. And the Opposition
journals and grog-shops are now as clamorous
against the repeal as they were against the enact
ment. of this provision.
A Special War Tax was enacted by Congress
during Saturday's sitting. Five per cent, on all
incomes for 18f>3 is to be paid on the Ist of Sep
tember next; and it is calculated that this item
will put $20,000,000 into the Treasury, to be de
voted to paying bounties to soldiers about to be
drafted. An attempt was made to include a tax on
liquors in hand; but this defeated the bill, and
it had to be passed without —too many members
having friends who arc interested in whisky. It
is hinted that a member from this city, who was
at first aconspieous champion of taxing Whisky,
has since seen (or felt) something that has turned
him completely topsy-turvy, so that he now resists
this tax as zealously as he ever favored it. Queer
world this.
Congress has decided that none of the States
which have been formally declared in insurrection
shall vote for President till readmitted into the
Union. The States thus excluded from participa
ting in the approaching Presidential contest are
as follows:
V 1 RGINI \, TENNESSEE,
NORTH CAROLINA, Mississrpi,
SOUTH CAROLINA, LOUISIANA,
GEORGIA, FLORIDA,
ALABAMA, ARKANSAS,
TEXAS,
Our Children on these Troublous Times.
Grace Greenwood in her late lecture in Chicago
drew the 1 olio wing picture of the future:
"Back ou these troublous times will our children
look in reverence and awe. The sous of our brave
Soldiers wili date their patents of nobility on gran
der battle-fields than Agincourtor Bannoekhurn.
Such patents of nobility as no royal herald s office
has symbols sufficiently glorious for. Many a coat
ol arms in those days will have one sleeve empty.
We may picture to ourselves a group of noble
young lads, some ten years heufc. thus proudly
accounting for their orphanage, which the country
should sec to it. shall not tie made desolate.
Says one —"J/y father fell in beating back the
invaders at Gettysburg.' Says another— "My
father fell at Lookout Mountain, lightning aliove
the clouds." Says a third— "My father suffered
martyrdom in Libby Prison. " Says another—
My father went down in the (Cumberland." —
Yet another —" My father was rocked into the
long sleep below the wave, in the iron cradle of
the Monitor." And there will be haple.-s lads
who will listen in inoumfui'envy—saying in their
secret hearts. '"Alas, we have no part no- lot in
such gloryings— our fathers were rebels! —and
here and there a youth more unfortunate, who
■lll steal away from his comrades and murmur in
bitterness of soul —"All, God help me! My father
was a copperhead
THE NEW TARIFF bill, just passed by Congress,
is stringent. The schedule affects the entire
body politic. The duty on tea is 25 cents per
pound; Sugar, 3 cents per pound; Confectionary,
15 cents per potiud; Molasses, 8 cento pergailou;
Brandy, first proof. $2 50 per gallon; other Spir
its, first proof, SI per gallon. Bay Hum,sl.so nej
gallon; Champagne, $6 per dozen quarts; all other
spiritous liquors, 100 per cent, ad valorem. The
duties upon Cigars are almost prohibitory. On
Cigars of all kinds, valued at sls or less per 1,000,
T5 cents per pound, and 20 per centum ad valorem;
valued at sls. and not overs3o per 1.000, $1.25
cents per pound, and 30 puroentum ad valorem;
valued at over S3O and not over $45 per 1,000 $3
per pound and 5n per centum ad valorem: valued
at over $45 per 1.000, $4 per pound and 50 per
centum ad valorem; paper cigars or cigarettes, in
cluding wrappers, snail be subjected to the same
duties imposed oncigars. On snuff, of all descrip
tions, 50 cents per pound. On Tobacco in the
leaf, unmanufactured and not stemmed, 35 coats
per pound. On Tobacco inauufactureu, 50 cents
per pound.
HEY. SAM'I. KF.PI.EE and a few others of Bed
ford who subordinate piety to polities of the eop
, pery stripe, have imitated their great leader Jeff.
Davis, and got up a little secsession in the Church,
and now propose to found "The Church of our
Providence. / We think Mr. Kepler fully justi
fied in seceding from the Methodist Church, as he
had only "Hobson'schoioe"—that is hehadeith—
er to withdraw or be kicked out. and he naturally
pref'ered peaceful dismemberment to that Style of
coercion. The only material mistake we see is in
the name of the new organization. To call it
"The Church of our Providence." is to make a
mistake alike in pointof fact and in good policy.
Ilad it been called "The Church of Jeff. Davis"
or "The church of Treason," the title would have
fitly and truthfulv expressed the character of the
institution, and then it would have become in a
very short time almost as large as the copperhead
party in Bedford county. There are various boun
ty-jumpers, conscript deserters, and snapping
copperheads over that way who are just ready for
brother Kepler's ministrations. Considering the
movement in the light of history, we do not feel
warranted in promising it a very high measure
of success. ()nc Lucifer, we believe it was. first
tried secession and war upon the power and attri
dutes of the Great Author of civil and religious
government, and if is generally conceded that he
lost by tbo operation. That he has not ceased to
lie powerful, however, is amply demonstrated by
Mr. Kepler and his followers.— Franklin Reposi
tory.i
A Vo* ('nil for Troop*).
WASHINGTON, July 6.
We are informed that the President will imme
diately issue a proclamation for 300.000 additional
men to aid in the suppression of the rebellion.
The hundred days men raised in several of the
States will not be credited to them under the new
call. The proclamation will probably appear to
morrow-
THE draft for the deficiencies in this county was
made in Chnmbersburg. Friday the fifth day of July.
We expected to receive a list in time for publication
this week. But no list has been "furnished tts, and
we were not able Jo procure it from the enrolling of-,
fictrs early tnr.ugh to be of any use this week.
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THE WAR FOR THE UNION.,
OFFICIAL WAR BILLK-TIXS.
Eebel Retreat front KenrtaW nountatn-Sber
rasn OeeOplrs ttarfolU, twenty MUes from
Atlanta, (ta.~.rrom fien. brunt's Army.
WAR DEPARTMENT, July 3—B P. M.
to .Vdjot General Dix, Aat fork:
The following dispatch, dated to- day, at Mari
etta, Ga. was received this P. M. from General
Sherman, giving the successful result of the Rank
ing Derations in progress for some days back:
"The movement on our right caused the enemy
to evacuate. We occupied Ketiesaw at daylight,
and Marietta at 830A. M. Thomas is moving
down the main road towards Chattohoochee;
McPherson toward the mouth of Nickojack on the
Sand town road,
"Our cavalry is on the extreme flanks. Wheth
er the enemy will halt this side of Chattohoochee
will soon be known.
Marietta is almost entirely abandoned bv its
inhabitants, and more than a mile of the railroad
iron removed between the town and the foot of
Keneaow."
A dispatch from General Grant's headquarters,
dated at 9 o'clock this morning, gives the follow
ing results of General Wilson's operations:
I 'Sixty miles of railroad were thoroughly des
troyed. The Danville road, General Wilson re
ports, could not l>e repaired in less than forty
days, even if all the materials were on hand, lie
has destroyed all the blacksmith shops where the
rails might be straightened, and all the mills where
scantling for sleepers could be sawed. Thirty miles
of the Southside road were destroyed.
Wilson brought in about 400 negroes and many
of the vast number of horses and mules gathered
in by his force. Ho reports that the Rebels
slaughtered without mercy the negroes they re
took. Wilson's loss of property is a small wagon
train, used to carry ammunition, his ambulance
train and twelve cannon. The horses of the ar
tillery and wagons were generally brought off.—
Of the cannon, two were removed from the car
riages, the wheels of which were broken and the
guns thrown into the water. One other gun had
been disabled by a Rebel shot breaking the trun
ions, Irefore it was abandoned. He estimates his
total loss ut from 750 to 1,OIK) men, including those
lost from Kauti' Division.'' *t
A Rebel force made its appearance near Mar
tinsburg this A. M., and were at last accounts
destroying the railroad and advancing on Mar
tinsburg. The reports received as yet are too
confused and conflicting to determine the mag
nitude of the force or the extent of its operations.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretarp of War.
Tire PlralaAlnbiiiiia sunk by tlie rnitMlSlateo
(.in bout licuriiiigv.
The pirate Alabama, C'apt. Semmcs. left Cher
bourg on the 19th ult., to engage the U. S. steam
er Kearsage, Capt. John A. Window, and at
tacked her ten miles from Cherbourg. The en
gagement lasted an hour and forty minutes. Both
vessals made seven complete circles in tiianoeuver
ing, at a distance of from a quarter to half a
mile. The Alabama was then stink.
The pirate Semuies and his crew were nearly all
saved by the English yacht Deerhound. Seinnies
was slightly wounded in the hand. Nothing ad
ditional has been received of the Kearsage and
Alabama fight. The whereabouts of the Kear
sage is doubtful, one rumor placing her at Ostend
and another at Cherbourg. Bhe landed some Woun
deq men at the latter place.
Before going out Semmes left till his chronome
ters, sixty in number, with his specie aud ransom
bonds at Cherbourg.
it is confirmed that no one was killed on the
Korsage and only three Sailors slightly wounded-
The vessel su-.taincd very little injury.
CONGRESS.
MONDAY, June 27.
SENATE. —The Senate passed a resolution au
thorizing tlie printing of 22.000 copies of the Ag
ricultural Report, 3000 copies of the report of the
Commissioner on the African Freedmen; also,
the publication of an army register, containing the
names of all officers who have been iu the volun
teer service. The House bill for the appointment
of a commission to report a proper site for a naval
depot ou the western waters was concurred in. A
bill to carry into effect the treaty with the United
States of Columbia was passed. The Loan 101 l
troiu the House was concurred in. The Judiciary
Committee reported a resolution that Messrs. Fish
back aud Baxter, arc not entitled to seats from
Arkansas. The Pacific Railroad bill was taken up,
and the Senate substitute was adopted. The bill
to regulate,prize proceedings was passed. Also,
the Mil to encourage emigration. The bill to pro
vide for taking bail in certain cases of military ar
rest was then discussed until the close of the ses
sion. At the evening session the hill to establish
a Bureau of Freedmen's Affairs was considered.
HOUSE. —The House postponed the resolution
of Mr. Ingersoll declaring that the permits hereto
fore issued by the Treasury Department, allowing
persons to tiade within the limits of any States
heretofore or now in rebellion, should at once be
revoked, and no more issued. The Committee on
Foreign Relations reported a resolution declaring
that Congress has a constitutional right to an au
thoritative voice in prescribing the foreign policy
of the United States, and such a topic of diplomat
explanation with any foreign Powers. Laid over.
The Senate amendments to the Tariff bill were
then considered, aud most of them were concurred
iu
TUESDAY, June 28.
SENATE.— The Senate, on Tuesday, passedwith
amendments, the amendatory bid concerning the
commercial intercourse between insurrectionary
and loyal States, Ac. The resolution toallow Sen
ators and Representatives to visit military forts,
prisons and hospitals in their respective States
was rejected. The hill to establish a Bureau of
Freedmen's Affairs was then considered through
out the day session, and was again taken up at the
evening session. The bill was debated, without
final action, up to the adjournment.
HOUSE. —The House of Representatives agreed
to the Senate amendiueuts to the Loan bill. The
substitute for the bill to regulate aud provide for
the enrolling and calling out the national forces,
which was rejected on Monday, was reconsidered
and passed. The Senate hill for the better organ
ization of the Quartermaster s Department was
passed with amendments.
"WEDNESDAY, Juno 29.
SENATE. —Mr. Hale's resolution was adopted,
directing inquiry by the Committee on the Conduct
of the War as to what had been accomplished to
wards the construction of gunboats and light
draught monitors. A motion to print the report
of the Commission concerning alleged frauds in the
Western Department was postponed. A bill was
passed releaving Mary Kellogg, whose husband
was hung as a spy in Richmond. The Committee
on Foreign Affairs was discharged from the sub
ject of Mexican relations and questions concerning
the conduct of France there. The resolution de
claring Mr. Fisliback and Mr. Baxter not entitled
to seats in the Senate from the State of Arkansas
was discussed and passed by a voteof27 to f> The
bill in amendment of the Pension act of July, 1862,
under which there are now fifteen thousand cases,
was amended so as to include the wives and chil
dren of colored soldiers, and passed. The report
of the Committee of Conference on the disagreeing
amendmcntrto the Tariff bill was adopted. The
bill concerning law and evidence in the District of
Columbia was passed. The House bill for enroll
ing and calling out the national forces was consid
ered. and certain amendments adopted. A Com
mittee of Conference on the disagreeing amend
ments to the Civil Appropriation bill wasappoint
ed. Mr. Sherman introduced a new section for
the Draft bill, which was adonted. Another a
mendment was accepted from Mr. Powell, aud the
amended bill passed.
HOUSE.— The Senate's amendments to the hill
regulating prize proceedings and the distribution
of prize money was concurred in. The resolution
disqualifying Mr. Blair, of Missouri' but not Mr.
Schenck, from raembciship in the House, was a
dopted. Various resolutions from the Committee
on Elections were laid on the table. Borne amend
ments of the Senate to the Civil Appropriation
bill were passed. In the evening session tbe Com
mittee on Public Expenditures v - uhorizerf-to
sit upon the New York Custom House ■ roubles du
during the recess. Tb- bill organizing ana icga
•mum 111 Hi 111 Ml WM.UM, i a—i II iwiari—liiia'll'—w-i ■
latingthe regular and volunteer engineer army
corps was passed. The Senate,s amendment to
the civil appropriation bill were approved. A
conference report on the disagreeing amendment
to the tariff bill was agreed upon. The House a
greed to extend the contract for carrying tlie over
land Paifie mail, and adjourned.
THURSDAY. .Tune 30.
! SENATE -The I*ll to encourage and facilitate tele
graphic communication l>ctweeu the Eastern and
Western coutinenta was received from the House,
with a proviso making it unlawful contract with
newspapers or associations for transmission of dis
patches on any terms different from those open to all
other newspapers. This was concurred in. Mr Poster
moved that the Senate iusist on its disagreement on
the bill amending the pension act, and ask for a con
ference. Carried, Mr. Wilson called up the bill for
the more speedy punishment of guerrillas. Mr.
Trumbull obtained leave to take up the joint resolu
tion reported from the Committee on the Judiciary
on the iiiair case, and it was adopted.
HOUSE —Mr. Julien reported the Senate bill, which
passed, regulating the disposal of coal lands and
town property on the public domain. The House
passed the Senate bill to aid in the construction of an
rntercontinental Telegraph. The House concurred
in, the Senate's amendment to the. bill assimilating
the rank of warrant officers in tbe Navy. The bin
for tbe construction of a new railroad between New
York and Washington was recommitted to the Se
lect Committee. Mr. Garfield made a report from the
Select Committee to investigate the affairs of the
Treasury Department, which was ordered to be prin
ted, and the minority of the Committee were given
leave to present their views. The Senate t lilf to fa
cilitate tradefon the Bed River of the North was pass
ed. The Amendatory Enrollment bill was returned
from the Senate with amendments. The Senate bill
to establish a Bureau for Freedrnan's Affairs was re
ferred. The House passed the Senate bill authori
zing the Secretary of the Navy to invest the Naval
Pension fund: also, the bill to punish persons aiding
seamen to escape; also the bill providing for the'effi
cienoy of the Navy. It repeals the clause in the en
rollmeat act for transferring soldiers to the Navy
and gives sailors the same bounty as soldiers. Tbe
bill establishing the salaries Of postmasters was pas
sed.
FRIDAY, July 1.
SENATE. —The Senate resumed consideration of
the bill to reimburse Pennsylvania for her militia
expenses during theinvasion last Summer. The bill
was further debated, and then laid Aside. The joint
resolution for the repeal of the Gold bill was passed
by a vote of twenty-four to thirteen. The East Ten
nessee Railroad bill wa3 discussed for a while, and
then postponed, aud the House bill providing for the
reconstruction of the seceded States taken up and
discussed. The House amendment striking out the
word "white" was rejected. A substitute offered
by Mr. Brown was adopted by a vote of seventeen to
sixteen. The bill was then passed—yeas, twenty
six : nays, three. The hill, as passed, provides as
follows: That when the inhabitants of any State
have been declared in a state of insurrection against
the United States by proclamation of the President,
by forces and virtue of the act entitled "An act fur
ther to provide for the collection of duties on imports
and for other purposes," approved July 13, 1861,
they shall be, and hereby are, declared to be incapa
ble of casting any vote for electors of President or
Vice-President, or of electing Senators or Represen
tatives to Congress, until said insurrection in said
State is suppressed or abandoned, and said inhabi
tants have returned to their allegiance to the Govern
ment of the United States, and until such return to
obedience shall be declared by proclamation of the
President, issued by virtue of an act of Congress
hereafter to be passed, authorizing the same. The
Enrollment bill was returned from the House' and a
Committee of Conference on it appointed. The Civil
Appropriation bill, and the bill providing for the con
struction of the Pacific Railroad, were passed. Ad
journed.
lloi SE. —After the passage of the resolution to re
peal the Gold act. the House took a recess until even
ing. when the Civil Appropriation bill was passed,
and also the bill making for the erec
tion of buildings for the Branch Mint at San Fran
cisco. The House concurred in the report of the
Committee of Conference on the Northern Route
Pacific Railroad bill, and on the Central Pacific Rail
road bill. Adjourned.
SATURDAY. Jnlv 2.
SENATE. — The Enrollment bill was finally passed.
The bill to guarantee to States whose Governments
have been usurped or overthrown a republican form
of government was returned from the House with the
Senate amendments disagreed to; the Senate reced
ed from its amendments and agreed to the House
bill. The Committee of Conference on the bill to
encourage emigration, made a report in favor of agree
iii" to the House bill, with certain amendments,
which strikes out, among other things, the require
ment that the immigrant shall throw off his allegi
ance, by oath, to the country from which ho comes.
The report was agreed to. A bill providing for the
education of engineers for tbo navv was parsed. A
large number of other acts were passed, and at three
o'clock ou .Sunday morning the Senate adjourned-
HOUSE. —The principal business transacted was
the adoption of" tin: report of the Committee of Con
ference on the Enrollment bill and the passage of a
bill to further increase the revenue by imposing a
special income tax.
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E March Bth IsOt, which provides that all Bonds issued
under this Act shall he EXEMPT FROM TAXATION by
or under any state or municipal authority. Subscriptions
to these Bonds are received in-United Slates notes of Na
tional Banks. They arc TO BE REDEEMED IX COIN,
at the pleasure of the Government, at any period not It**
than t- n nor more than forty yean from their date, and un
til their redemption Five Per Cent. Interest will lc
Paid in Coin, on Bonds of not over one hundred dol
lars annually. The interest is payable oil the first days
March aud September in each year.
Subscribers will receive either Registered or Coupon
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mercial uses.
Subscribers to this loan will liavo the option of haTing
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OVEIL EIGHT PER CENT. INTEREST
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It may be useful to state in this connection that the to
tal Funded debt of the United States on which Lite rest is
payable in gold, on tho 3d day of March, 1864, was $708,-
375,000. The interest on this debt for the coming fiscal
year will be $45,937,126, while the customs revenue in gold
for the current fiscal year ending June 30t'n, 1864, has been
so far at the rate of over $100,000,000 per annum.
It will be seen that even the present gold revenues of the
Government are largely in excess of tho wants of the
Treasury for the payment of gold interest, wbilo tho re
cent increase of the tariff will doubtless raise tho annual
receipts from customs on tho same amount of importa
tions, to $150,000,000 per annum.
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were not issued from the United States Treasury until
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DISPEPSIA,
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DISEASES RESULTING FROM
DISORDERS OF THE LIVER
AND DIGESTIVE ORGANS,
ARB CURED BY
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TH E G R EAT STRENGTHEN ING
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CONTAINS NO RUM OR WHISKEY,
AND CANT MAKE QRUKKARDS,
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READ WHO SAYS SO :
KItOW THE HON". THIIH VS R. FLORENCE.
FROM THE HON*. THOMAS B. FLORENCE.
FROM THE HON. THOMAS H. FLORENCE.
Washington, January 1,1864.
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IUOXAS B. FLOSENTB.
From John B. Wickershnm. Esq., firm of Wickersham
<t Hutchison, the celebrated .Manufacturers of Fancy
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lam the recipient from you of one of the greatest fa
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1 often inward;, thank yon for such a valuable rpecifio
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Truly yours,
JOBS B. WZCKERSHAX.
New York, Feb. 2, ISfit.
4'rom Julius Lie. f'sc., firm of is* J Walker, the mod
extensive Music l'nl lis; crs in the l imed .-tates. No. 722
Chestnut .Street, Philadelphia,
February Bth. IS(H.
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From the Hon. J ACOB BROOM,
Philadelphia, Oct. 7th. 1562.
Gentlemen: In reply to your inquiry as to the effeet
produced by the use of Hoofland's German Bitters, in
my family, I have no hesitation in raying that it has been
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thirteen years' standing, and which had become very dis
tressing. the use of one bottle gave decided relief, the sec
ond affecting a cure, and the third, it seems, has confirmed
the cure, for there has been no symptoms of its return for
the last six years. In my individual use of it 1 find it o
be an unequalled tonic, and sincerely recommend its u ?.
to the sufferers.
Truly yours, JACOB BROOM.
1707 Spruce St.
Rev. W. D. Seigfried. Pastor of 12th Baptist Church,
Philadelphia, December 26th, 1863.
Messrs. Jones A Evans—Gentlemen:—l have recently
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the use of a few bottles. Yerv respectfnllv vour,
" W. D. SEIGFRIED,
No. 254 Shackamaxon St.
From the Rev. Thos. Winter, D. D., Pastor of Roxbop
ougk Baptist Church.
Dr. Jackson:—Dear Sir:—l feel it due to your excel
lent preparation, I(ooftand German Bitters, to add my tes
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to try a bottle of your Gorman Bittors, I did so, and have
and unexpected relief; my health has
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the article where I meet with cases similarto my own, ana
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Respectfully yours, T. WINTER, Roxborough. Pa.
From Rev. J. P. Herman, of the German Reformed Church,
Kutitown, Berks County, Pa.
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with Dyspepsia nearly twenty years, and have never used
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