quires. It calla fat mediocrity, and it
gets nothing better. The highest tal
ent goes whore it is a passport to the
highest rewards. It witbdraws from
a field in which the chance ofacces
sion to the first civic honor is in an
inverse ratio of eminence and qualifi
cations.
Thus, under the rule on, inferior in
tellects which party management has
elevated to the conduct of public af
fairs, the peace, the prosperity, and the
high character of the country have
gone down. If the great mon of the
Republic had controlled the policy and
action of the Government during the
last quarter of a century, we should
have had no rebellion. Distraction
within invites aggression from without,
and -we aro enduring the humiliation
of seeing a mo - narchy established in,
contact with our Southern boundary
by one of the great Powers of Europe
in contempt of our repeated protesta
tions, and another of those Powers
permitting rebel cruisers to be armed in
her ports to depredate upon our com
merce.
Under such a system of political
management no Government, can last
long. I know it is not easy to change
what such a lapse of time has fastened
upon us. Politicians have the strong
est interest in placing in the chair of
state feeble mon, whom they can con
trol, instead of men of . self-sustaining
power, to whom they would be mere
subordinates and auxiliaries. But the
time may eome—it may not be far die
tant---when the people, tired of voting
for men of inferibr capacity . , thrust up
on them through the machinery of con
ventions in which they have no voice,
will rise in their majesty, and place the
conduct of their affairs m more experi
enced and capable hands: If such a
change is notspeedily effected,is my firm
belief that our republican institutions
will fall to pieces, and an arbitrary gov
ernment - rise upon their ruins; for,
i un
less the testimony of all history sto
be discarded, no political system can
'be upheld except by giving to its ad
ministration the benefit of the very
highest talent and the largest experi
ence.
Till this revolution shall come, my
advice to the great body of the people
is to hold fast to their traditionary
principles and good name by giving
an earnest support to the war, and to
scan with the severest scrutiny the
conduct of those who control party
movements. Many of the men who
aro most prominent in - conventions
have personal interests to.. subserve.
Even those who are comparitively dis
interested are not always the safe advi
sers. They have lived so long in tur
bid atmosphere of party excitement
and party traffic, that they have con
tracted morbid habits, of thought and
action, which, like chronic diseases in
the human system, it is hard to allevi
ate and still harder to cure. The only
hope left to AB lies in the patriotism
and disinterestedness of the great body
of the people of all parties who are
facing the enemies of their country
on the battle field, with a heroism
unsurpassed in any ago, or who, at
home, amid tho prevailing tumult and
disorder, are working out, in the•quiet
pursuit-of their varied occupations, the
momentous prebTelif — Of the public
prosperity and safety. When they
shall send out, fresh from their own
ranks, new men, to consult together
for the salvation of all that is most pre
cious in Government and society,
there will be cause for hope and faith in
our redemption from impending evils
and dangers; bearing, in the mean
time, as well as we can the heavy bur
dens which have been cast Upon us by
a quarter of a century of political mis
management and public misrule.
It is time the people should under
stand these truths. No one, perhaps,
can tell them with more propriety than
myself, having been, much of the peri
od referred to, in public life, fruitlessly
contending against party contrivances
which have involved the country in all
the evils of civil strife.
I am, very respectfully, yousr,
JOHN A. DIX.
JAMES H. OxNE, - Esq., Chairman, iS4c
A Card.
The statement is published in the
editorial column of the last .Monitor,
that Saninel J. Hackadorn, on the day
of election, "presented•himseif at the
polls in Mount Union and offered to
vote, and that the board, because ho
was anon-resident of the State, prop
erly rejected his vote.; whereupon a
telegraphic dispatch was received from his
Honor, Judge Taylor, stating that . Hack
adorn had a right to vote, and. that upon
the opinion so given the vote•was received."
This is followed by the emphatic in
quiry, "can it be possible that this is
true ?"
It would have been asiwetl, perhaps,
if it would have answered the writer's
purpose as well, to have inquired for
the truth before making the publica
tion; especially if the writer be a young
gentleman of the Bar. IT IS NOT
TRUE. I sent no such dispatch. And
since this might have.heen ascertained
by inquiry in less time than it required
to concoct the statement, I am con
strained to regard it as a willful, or
reckless, and therefore a malicious,
perversion of the truth; such as it
might not be deemed . polite to call
mere by its proper name. •
Had the inquiry been put to me, I
would have answered that Mr. Irs.
right to vote, if otherwise qualified,
depended upon the question whether
be bad acquired a residence out of the
'State; a question of fact and intention
to bo determined by the board upon a
due consideration of all the facts and
circumstances of the case. The only
opinion I did dispatch on that day,
was, that a sick soldier, at home on
furlough, could not vote by prosy; the
effect of which, I learn, as I supposed
at the time it would be, to exclude a
vote for the Union cause.
GEO. TAYLOR.
Huntingdon, Oct. 22, 1864.
The loyal people should not forge
the mass meetings to ho held in sever
al of the townships.
Compaign Medals—Lincoln & John
son—for sale at Brown's Hardware
Store.
Lie 6,10bt.
HUNTINGbON, PA
Wednesday morning, Oct. 26th,1864.
W. Lewis, Editor and Proprietor
I .lsthiATl
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Our Flag Forever
"I know of no mode in which, a loyal citi
zen may so well demonstrate his devotion to
Ins country as by sustaining the Flag the
Constitution and the Union, under all circum
stances, and TINDER EVERY ADMINISTRATION
REGARDLESS OF PARTY POLITICS, AOAINST ALL
'SSAILANTS, AT LIONEIND ABROAD."-STEPNEN
DOUGLAS.
NATIONAL 'UNION TICKET,
FOIL PRESIDENT,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
OF ILLINOIS.
POE VICE PRESIDENT,
ANDREW JOHNSON,
OF TENNESSEE.
Union State Electoral Ticket
SENATORIAL
Morton 31'11.1.ielniel, Philadelphia
Thos. Cunningham, Beaver Co.
akenEsENTATIve.
1 Robt. P King, 13 Elias W. Mile,
2 Geo. Morrison 14 Chß. 11. Shriner,
Coates, 15 Silo. Wister,
3 Henry Burnm, 16 D. WConaughy
4 Win. H. Kern, 17 D. W. Woods,
5 B. H. Jenks, 18 Isaac, Benson,
6 Chas. M. Runk, 19 John Patton,
7 Robt. Parke, 20 S. B. Dick,
8 W. Taylor, 21 Ev. Bierer,
9 J. A. lliestand, 22 Int). P. Penney
10 R. 11. Coryoll, 23 Eh. M'Junkin,
11 Ed.llanday, 24 J. W. Blanch'rd
12 Chas. F. Reed.
MASS MEMO.
Loyal Voters Bally!
Mass Meetings will be held at the
following places, and the people are
expected to turn out en 11:lasso:
McConneUstowil, Wednesday, Oct. 26th,
afternoon and evening.
Green Tree, Thursday, Oct. 27, after
noon and evening.
Warriorsmark, Saturday, Oct 29, af
ternoon and evening.
Orbisonia, • Tuesday, Nov. Ist, after
noon and evening.
Cassville, Wednesday, Nov. 2d, after
noon and evening.
Marldesburg, Friday, Nov. 4th, af
ternoon and evening.
Able and distinguished speakers
will be present to address the people.
HENRY GRAFFUS,
Chairman Co. Committee.
Oct. 17, 1864.
The Keystone 0. K.
The official home vote of the State
at the late election, gives the Opposi
tion or White Flag Party a majority
of 6 votes. The soldiers' votes, and
they aro white men, will give the Uni
on party a majority of at least 15,000
in the State, and this will be doubled
ut tho November election for Lincoln
and Johnson. Stick a pin there. •
Barker, Hall and Haines Elected,
Enough soldiers' votes have been
received to elect our candidate for
Courrress and both our candidates for
the Senate, by majorities from two to
five hundred. This is glory enough,
and our brave soldiers can give three
times three.
A ltistake.in the Total.—Mr. Hall,
for Senator, has 517 majority in this
county, on the home vote, instead of
537 as printed in our table last week.
Whistling ,to keep their courage up.—
The 41/onitor is anxious to keep the
people ignorant of the fact that the
late election in this State resulted in
favor of retaining "Father Abraham"
in the Presidential chair. Last year
from 15,000 to 20,000 soldiers came
home and gave Curtin 15,000 majority.
At the late election the soldiers were
not at home to vote, and the bowie vote
in the State is close. The soldiers' vote
of last year is yet to be counted, and
when added to the Union home vote,
the friends of the rebels will find them
selves as badly defeated as they were
last year, and perhaps worse. But the
Monitor must whistle to keep the cour
age of its • party up. The majority
the soldiers gave at the late election
will be doubled in November—and
they are the "boys" who should have
a right to say who should be President,
and commander-in-chief of our armies.
Their choice is our choice.
GIVING IT Gr.—The New York Rer
ald and other prominent lit'elellan pa
pers, in view of the results of the late
elections in Ohio, Indiana, and Penn
sylvan4t, give up in dispair, and say
there is now no doubt of the success
of the Union candidates Lincoln and
SolAon.
DEATFI OE JAMES CLARK, ESQ.—Wo
regret to learn of the death of James
Clark, Esq., of Birmingham. A tele
graph dispatch from Lewisburg, Union
county, informs us that ho fell dead in
the Cemetery of that place on-Satur
day last.
For or Against.
If we make frequent. appeals to the
better men of the land to throw off
tho shackles of party and take sides
against the Chicago Ticket, it is be
cause we view with the greatest ap
prehension the consequences which
its success would have on the destiny
of the Republic. It seems to us that
no man who feels that he has a stake
in the Government, can be indifferent
to the new perils surely to grow out
of a change of the Administration at
this time. If the change related sole
ly to men—if the question was simply
who should have the offices and enjoy
the spoils; if the so called Democratic
Party. backed its claim to the suffrages
of the people by profesions of sound
principles and contemplated only a
change of the crow,while the ship was
keptright ahead, butlittlo consequence
comparatively cauld be attached to the
issue. But the fact is far different.—
Not only a change of crew and officers,
but of tho direction the ship shall sail
is proposed. She is to be steered in a
course beset with breakers and every
conceivable peril; worse still, the crew
would not hesitate to scuttle her out
right. •
It may seem harsh to some that we
charge that the M'clelllanite.s meditate
the : destruction of the Government.—
But what is the state of the case ?
The rebellion is the most stupendous
crime, the most monstrous wickedness,
that bad men ever conceived, because
•it seeks to overthrow a Government
that secures to all who live under it, a
larger sum of happiness, more equal
justice, and a greater degree of securi
ty, than any other on the face of the
earth. And yet the Chicago Conven
tion did not so much as to raise a fin
ger or utter a word in protest of the
monstrous iniquity of destroying such
a Government.
This ought to be enough. But it is
not all. Every Rebel, whether in arms
or not, is looking for the success of the
Chicago Ticket as the only hope the
rebellion has. This proves that the
objects to be subserved by its election
aro directly opposed to the ends for
which our armies aro fighting, for
nearly four years.
We will not follow the intimate con
nection between the ideas, hopes and
purposes entortaiued at Richmond and
Chicago. We wish again to draw the
attention of Democrats to the fatal
consequences of lending their aid, even
of indifference, or neutrality, to the
Chicago Ticket. The question is one
of life or death, and indifference, neu
trality, or open opposition to the Gov
ernment is alike criminal.
Place the party of Chicago in power
to-morrow, and what would be the con
sequence ? What would be the effect
ou values, business, and the future pros
pect? Would gloom or sunshine fol
low ? Would victory or disaster at
tend our military operations? How
would rebels everywhere hail the an
nouncement ? The air would vibrate
with their rejoicings. And why_? Be
cause it would be their final victory.
Who can deny this? And yet we see
men claiming to be loyal Democrats,
openly striving for such a consumma
tion. Do they know what they are
doing? If they say this may not hap
pen should a change take place, we
ask, wherefore the confidence of the
robots, the buppurt, of Vallandigham,
the nomination of Pendleton ? Does
any man in his sense pretend that
with the APClellan party brought in
to power, the rebels would not be let
up, and 'a settlement made whereby
they would be the gainers ? Does any
loyal man wish to see such a settle
ment.
The naked question is, shall the Gov
ernment be preserved or destroyed ?
Evade or turn it as you will, this is the
issue. There is time yet for every
man to decide on which side ho will
be. Sure •we are, no man, as an elec.
tor; was ever brought to contemplate
a more momentous subject.
How the Army Votes,
The returns from Pennsylvania Re
giments have not yet been fully receiv
ed, but wo give the following to show
how the "boys" vote:
Union. Tom
45th llegln3ont 95 11
Ord 82 • 31
56th 100 2
88th •• 71
Tin 67 11
81st '3l 8
97th 87 33
99th 91 61
100th 210 16
116th ‘t GG 32
111th « 114 21
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196th Infantry, Chicago "09 47
21st Cava1ry............................................270 SO
Nashville Hospital 1,800 - 200
Wilmington ........................................... ...55 7
BaMinor, 350 55
Washington and 'Alexandria 1 303 212
Chester Hospital . 81 3
blartinsburg and Cumberland 1,250
Camp Cadwallader... ... . ...... ... .......... :.........357
City Point 950 1.1
Fort Delaware 149 3
Dirney's Sharp Shooters 650 50
ttek. The character of 'the Monitor is
so well known everywhere that its
falsehoods cannot injure judge Taylor
or any other gentleman it has attacked
or may hereafter attack. A paper that
has never said an unkind word against
traitors or their treason cannot expect
to have influence with a loyal people.
A. Copperhead Canard Relating to the
205th Regiment P. V.
We aro often amused then amazed
at witnessing the'efforts of the copper
head leaders, first, to rob the soldierof
his elective franchise, and after his
friends have invested him with the
right, to attract his support forlis ac
tual enemies. Tho following is a fair
specimen of the way tho copperhead
organs in this State seek to use the
soldier. We give Colonel Mathews
the benefit
. of his quotations ar.d his
statements to Adjutant Gen. Russell,
as the very best mode of meeting and
exposing the falsehood with which ho
deals ! Tho re,ador will fully under
stand the whole matter, after perusing
these extracts and Colonel Mathews'
letter as they follow below :
205T11 PA. REar.—The 205th is a .
new regiment of which Col. J. Ard
MathowS, of Lewistown, is Colonel,
and Major Morrow, formerly of this
place, is Major. A few days ago this
regiment passed through Washington
to the front. When passing the White
House Mr. Lincoln came out and salu
ted them. At this point some one in
the regiment cried aloud, " three
cheers for Gon: McClellan," and our
informant says three of the most deaf
ening cheers he over heard from as
many throats were promptly given.
Lincoln retired and the regiment went
on.—Huntingdon Monitor.
There aro so many McClellan false
hoods afloat nowadays, (the partisans
of that nominee evidently intending
to carry on the campaign by lying,)
that wo have doubts of the truth of
the above, because wo know that a
number of both officers and men are
not McClellanites. Besides we cannot
believe that the officers and men of
any regiment. in the service (unless
rebels at heart) would so far dishonor
and disgrace themselves in . a body as
to offer such an insult to the comman
der-in-chief and President when he
came out to greet and cheer them on
their way. The fluntingdon Monitor
however gives it as a truth, and al
though the authority is eoubtful, we
commend it to the attention of Governor
Andrew G. Curtin as worthy of inquiry.
Tho above- was enclosed in a noto
by Col. Mathews, and addressed to
'Adjutant General Russell. It is not
out of place to state hero that Col. M.
is a Democrat of the school who be
lieve in freedom and right:
CAMP or 205T11 REOT. PA. VOL ~
NEAR CITY POINT, VA. , Oct. 13.
A. L. Russell, Adjutant en. of Penna
GENERAL-I extract from the Lew
istown Gazette the enclosed:
.The editor "commends it to the at
tention of Governor A G. Curtin as
worthy of, iuquiry!! Without solicita
tion from His Excel!oney, I reply that
there is lie truth whaternr in the state
ment published in the Lewistown Ga
zette, as copied from the Huntingdon
Monitor, neither (hi' I et.usidcr such
slang.worthy the attention or inquiry
of His Excellency:
I um, General, respectfully-,
Your obedient servant,
J. A...IIIA.T.HEWS,
Col6nel 205th Regiment P. V
Wo will comment.no further on this
exposure than to state, that the reader
may place an eBtimate on all the sto
ries which ho hears of the soldiers'
opposition to Mr. Lincoln, similar to
that which Col. Mathews places op the
Huntingdon Monitor—namely, that they
are but the coinage of the secret traitors to
perform their share of the work of im
pairing the credit of. a loyal man.
WIIO IS TO BLAME ?-IVe have re
ceived letters from soldiers in the army
complaining of the neglect of their
friends at home in not sending them
certificates of assessment, tax receipts
and tickets to enable them to vote at
the late election. One writer says
that at least one•third of the Union
votes of his 'regiment were lost for
want of the proper papers and tickets.
Ho says further, that all the McClellan
men in the regiment had received the
proper papers, and their tickets, and
voted. The Union men of the county
will have to be wide awake to keep
up to the perfect organization of the
Opposition party. They know their
men in and out of the army, and they
do not intend that a single vote shall
be lost.
If Lincoln should be xe•elested, the
South will give up and the Union will
be reestablished, leaving the Confed
erate debt to be paid by individual
rebels and their foreign friends. If
McClellan should be elected, this party
will help the rebels out of the trouble
the leaders of the North helped to get
them in. With McClellan, the South
ern debt will be engrafted on the debt
of the country, and where the tax
payer now pay $lOO he will have to
pay s2oo—an extra hundred to pay
traitors ft r destroying the lives of
hundreds of thousands of our best
men.
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IF there had existed in the Southern
States during this war, as does exist in
the Northern States, a political party
like the Demogracy of the North, the
rebellion would long ago have been
over. But the Union men in the South
were forcibly silenced. JEFF DAvis, by
proclamation, gave all residents of the
States in his power, forty days to take
tho oath of . allegiance to him, or to
leave the country. It was impossible
to organize a party opposed to the re
bellion. Tho North, on the contrary,
is divided. This accursed division is
all that stands in way of a speedy
peace. If the pooplo of the North
were united, tho South could not,
would not resist; that they aro not
united the Copperhead leaders are re
sponsible, and God. McClellan is not
the less so in consenting to become
their tool.
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ENOUGH soldiers' votes were polled
at the late election to show how they
will vote in November, and already
we bear of threats from the leaders of
the bogus Democracy that the success
of Union candidates by the soldiers'
vote will be contested on the ground
of the unconstitutionality of the vote.
It is not at all strange that traitors at
home should object to the soldiers'
vote being counted when it is cast in
favor of sustaining our Government
against the attacks , of a band , of
Southern conspirators backed up by
the aristocracy of England and France•
The traitors North did their best to
prevent our soldiers from having the
constitutional right to vote, and failing
in that, they then tried to influence
them to cast their votes for candidates
sympathizing with the rebels—but in
this they have also failed, and if all
soldiers could see themselves as their
honest friends see them, Father Abra
ham would receive the vote of every
bravo and good man in the army. A
soldier who can vote to put into power
a class of men who have been their
open enemies since the commencement
of the war to save 'our country from
destruction, is unworthy the uniform
of a sOldier.
UNION ELECTORAL TICKETS.—We
print a column of tickets in this paper,
which should be cut out and placed in
the hands of persons wishing to vote
them. Every voter at home and in
the army should haVe a ticket before
the day of election.. And every voter
should examine his ticket and be sure
it is a Union ticket—a dead shot at
tho rebellion and home traitors such
as now control .the so-called Demo
cratic organization, See. that the
rebel sympathizers do not deceive you
with their mixed tickets.
Woaxma Union men of the county,
circulate the Union tickets in every
district before the day of election. If
you know an, honest
. Unionpernocrat
in your neighborhood give him a tick
et and call his attention to the impor
tance of the contest. His vote must
be for or against the rebellion—for or
against surrender to traitors—for or
against our Government.
Tnz Union Vote of the State is
smaller than last year, but not by rea
son of any defection to the opposite
ranks. There is no increase there. On
the contrary all the tide of public
opinion and sentiment sets more and
more strongly towards the develop
ment of loyal Union principles. Penn
sylvania has nobly stripped herself of
her loyal citizens to enrich the armies
of the Republic, and yet, while thous
ands of her sons have thus . gone from
home to maintain the honor of the
country's flag in the field, our friends
cannot understand why these brave
men are not at the same time voting
at home and fighting in the field: Here
is the principal cause of the falling
off of the Union vote. The other cause
is to be found in that indifference
which is always noticeable in rural dis
tricts in the absence of a general State
ticket, an indifference which will en
tirely disappear before the November
election, when we have every reason
to believe that Mr. Lincoln will carry
the State by an overwhelming majori
ty, both of the home and the army
vote.
THIRTEENTH. PENN'A CAVALRY.—In
the engagement on the 29th ult., the
13th Penn'a Cavalry, cbmmandod by
our gallant fallow-townsman, Major
Goo. F. McCabe, acted a conspicious
part. It was ordered to clear the road
from the Halifax road to the Vaughn
road, a distance of -three milesi.which
they accomplished after some hard
fighting, capturing and killing a num
ber of the enemy, The following is
the list of killed;wounded and missing
in the 13th Penn'a Cavalry :
Co. A. JOhn Violett, Private, wounded.
" 8. Moisiei
"J. W . .yleti, Corp,
"J. Kiiso, Yrivuto, "
" S. Firth, "
Co. C. One man missing,, (unknown.)
Co. E. H. Daugherty, Sergt. "
Co. F, P. D. Bricker, Lieut., killed
" A. Hartzell, Sorgt. missing.
" IL Betz, Private, "
" Philip Garner,
" P. Hunthborger,
if
" L. Myers,
" J. LOWN,
• " J. Eiseuhour, " "
• '' J. AL'Betb, " "
Co. G, J. Eiswort, " wounded
" S. Price, cc . 4(
" J. Gull., 4; it
" D. Fulton, " missing.
Co. H, A. Stout, " wounded
" J. B. Davis, " g‘
" J. S. Walters, Lieut., missing.
Co. 141.. 11. Etlingor,Privato, wounded
Co. K , J. K. Pine, Corp. missing.
" E. Waterworth
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" Samuel Groff ; "
Co. L, P. O'Neil,
Co. M, C. Lutz, " wounded
• " J. Lewis "
" T. Bennett,
" W. Fleck,
" M. Sullivan, " iC
MORE MAMMOTH BYO
have received from our friend Seim
Alper, West Huntingdon, two pota
toes weighing four pounds and two
ounces. They are strongly inclined to
the Union article, and if properly cul
tivated would be a genuine Sheridan
potato°, Mr. P. has our thanks.
1181.. We have several communica
tions on band from our bravo "boys" in
the army, which it is impossible for us
to got in typo. Our friends must ex
cuse us for what may appear to them
us a neglect on Our part.
TIIE politicians who argue that the
interference of the President with sla
very is unconstitutional, invariably
ignore the all-important fact that the
slave States are in rebellion. They
emphasize the constitutional limita
tions of Executive power in time of
peace; they omit all reference to the
constitutional extensions of power in
time of war. Mr. Chase, in his late
speech at Covington, concisely stated
the legal authority the President pos
sesses on this sabject. He said :
"The Constitution provided for rais
ing armies, and made the President
Commander-in-Chief. It gaVe him,
therefore, full power to take all' steps
necessary to the effectual prosecution
of the war. The best statesmen in
the land have said, and the proposition
has passed unchallenged, that in case
of insurrection or foreign war the in
stitution of slavery must be subject to
such disposal as the national interests
should require. In other words, that
with insurrection in a slaveholding
State, the whole power over slavery
must pass to the National Govern
ment. In my judgment, when- insur
rection gave the President power over
slavery, with that power came the
duty to put an end to it. Mr. Lincoln
was bound to do that which was no-.
cessary for .the salvation of the Re
public.
It is plain that we have a local in
surrection, and a national authority
to suppress it. In such a case, there
can be no such thing as the right of
rebels to local institutions which, in
the opinion of the National Govern
ment, are dangerous to its own exis•
tence.
TILE McClellan party of Pennsylva•
nia have said to the soldiers that they
were unworthy the right to vote, and
yet we find soldiers thus insulted,
lying on their belly in the dust,kissing
the feet of the very men who attempt
ed to put thorn on a level with the
negro. Such soldiers are unworthy
the respect of free white men.
STILL TREY COME.- Last week. we
received from Mr. Adolphus White, of
Oneida township, 20 potatoes that
.filled a half bushel measure. They are
the finest potatoes we have received.
We have also received from Mr.
Levi Wright, of Union township, 13
potatoes that filled a peck measure.
• Union potatoes are"some pumpkins"
this fall—they are as extravagant as
the Union majorities intim army. The
army and our home friends have our
thanks for largo majorities and Mtge
potatoes.
Another Great Vic
tory by Sheridan.
OVER 50 CANNON CAPTURED!
LONGSTREET "SMASHED !"
300 Wagns and limindancos, and
10 Battle-FlagrCaptured !
SHERIDAN is a " BRICK I"
CEDAR CREEK, Oct 19, 10 P. M.
Lieutenant General Grant, City Point :
I have the honor to report that my
army at Cedar Creek wus attacked
this A. M., before daylight, and my
loft was turned and driven in confusion
with the loss of twenty pieces of artil
lery. I hastened from Winchester,
where I was on my return from Wash
ington and found the two armtes be
tween Middletown and Newtown, hav
ing been driven back about four miles.
Ilere took the matter in hand, and
and quickly united the corps, formed a
compact lino of battle just in time to
repulse an attack of the enemy, which
was handsomolydone at about 1 P. M.
At 3 P. M., atter some change of the
cavalry from the left to the right flank,
I attacked, with great vigor, driving
and routing the enemy, capering,
according to the last report, forty-three
pieces ofartillery And very many pris
oners. Ido not yet know the number
of my casualties, or loss of the enemy.
Wagons, horses, -ambulances and
eai3sons in large numbers are in our
possession. They also burned some of
the trains.
Gen. Ramseur is a prisoner in our
hands, severely and perhaps mortally
wounded. •
I have to regret the loss of General
Bidwell, killed, and. Generale Wright,
Grove and Russell, wounded—Wright,
slightly wounded.
Affairs at times looked badly, but
by the gallantry of our brave officers
and men, disaster has been converted
into a splendid victory. Darkness
again intervened to shut off groat re
sults.
lf 11
II II
I now occupied Strasburg. As
soon as obtained I will send you far
ther particulars.
(Signed) I'. IL SHERIDAN,
Major General. •
What forces and their numbers were
opposed to Gen. Sheridan are not yet
reported to the Department, but the
boldness, vigor and success of the at
tack, strongly indicated that heavy
reinforcements had been sent from
Richmond with the expectation of ful
filling Longstreet's boast to smash up
Sheridan. Longstreet was known to
be in the Valley and had assumed
command of the rebel army, and con
fident hopes of au overwhelming disas
ter to the Union army were boastfully
expressed for several days back by the
rebel adherents in Washington and
Baltimore.
Privato
E. M. STANTON, Socratary of War.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 21,11:40 A•
Maj. Gen. Dix, New York :
The followi❑g tolegram, received
this morning, contains further particu
lars of the battle - of Cedar Creek :
CEDAR CREEK, Oct, 20, 11:30 A. M.
Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant, City Point :
We have again been favored by a
great victory—a victory won from
disaster, by the gallantry of our offi
cers and men.
The attack on the enemy was made
about 3 o'clock, r. it., by a left half
[OFFICIAL NEWS.]
wheel of the whole line, with a divis
ion of cavalry turning each flank of
the enemy, the whole line advancing.
The enemy, after a stubborn resis
tance, broke and fled, and were par
sued with _vigor: .
The artillery capured will probably
be over 50 pieces. This, of course,
includes what were capured' from our
troops in the morning. &t least-six
teen huindred prisoners have been
brought in,'also
_wagons and ambulan
ces in large numbers.
This morning the cavalry made a
dash at Fisher's Hill, and carried it,
the enemy haveing fled during the
night, leaving only a small rear
guard. - -
I have to regret the loss of many
valuable officers, .
killed -sul .wounded,
among them Col. 'Joseph. - ,Thorburn,
commanding a division of-Crook's com
mand:killed ; Col. J. Howard. kitchen,
commanding a brigade, wounded; Col.
R. G. M. Lusie, commanding a brigade,
wounded severely, but would not leave
the field.
I cannot yet give exact detail.—
s
Many of our men captured in the
morning have made their escape and
are coming in.
Ramseur, commanding a division in
Early's corps, died this morning.
(Signed) P. H. SHERIDAN,
Major General Conunanding.
Gen. Grant's appreciatidn of the
victory is expressed An the ,following
dispatch : ; . -
CITY POINT, Oct. 20, 8 P. M.
To B. X. Stanton , Secretary. of War
. I had a salute f one hundred guns
from each of the armies here, fired in
honor of Sheridan's last victory.—
Turning what had bid fair to be a dis
aster into a glorious victory, stamps
Sheridan what I have always.thought
him—one of the ablest of generals.
(Signed) U. S. GRANT,
Lieutenant General.
The Medical Director . reports . that
770, slightly wounded, have reached
Winchester from the field, and all the
wounded that are able to bear trans
portathslb will be forwarded immedi
ately to Martinsburg.
The telegraph line is now working
to Atlanta, but no late reports have
been received by the Department.
E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
WASHINGTON, 0ct,22.
Major General Dix, N. Y: - -
The following official dispatch Bias
been received from General Sherillan :
CEDAR CREEK. 'Virginia, 1.
4 r• M., Oct. 23.
.Lieutenant General Grant, City Point.
I pursued the routed force of the
enemy nearly to Fort Jackson, which
point he reached during the night of
the 19th and 20th, without an organi-
zed regiment of his army.
. • From the accounts of our prispners
who have escaped and citizens, the
rout wascomplote.
About 2,000 of the enemy broke
and made their way down through
tho mountains, on the left, for ten
miles. On theline of retreat, the road
and country were covered with small
arms, thrown away by the flying reb
els, and other debris. •
I think that not loss than 300 wag
ons and ambulances were either capt
ured or destroyed. The accident of
the morning turned to our advantage,
RS much an though the whole move
ment had been planned. The only:re
gret that I have to the capture, in the
early morning, of from 800 to 1,000 of
our men. I am now sending to the
War Depitrtmcnt ten battle flags.
The loss of artillery in the morning'
was seven guns from Crook, cloven
from Emory, and six from Wright.
From all that I can learn I think , that
Early's reinforcements could not be
less than 16,000 men.
P. H. SHERIDAN,
Major General Commanding.
E. M. STANTON
DIED,
Iu the house of his soudrlaw, Joseph Dysart, Egg., he
Blair county, Pa., on the 27th day. of Floptember, 1864,
CIIIIII3IOPIIM WIGTON, Pig. r itl the 88th year of his age.
Mr. Wigton woe born in Bucks county in 1777, and
moved into Chester county early to Ilfe;vrbere ha Been
eectired and enjoyed the friendship of the good and the
wise amongst men for many years. , About thirtii-fiva
years ago, the limas edwith hie family moved into nos
tingdon county, where by christian character and Correct
deportment, he soon endeared himself to society,whese
confidence in, and love for him, contionea tiering hie life.
Ile commenced the manufactOry of iron on Spruce Creek,
and conducted his business successfully, till age admon
ished him to retire from active life, whoa he handed over
his Forgo to his eons.
As a citizen, Mr. Wigioa was always at his post, doing'
service for hie country and for his friends. And when the
flag of his country was insulted by the most powerful
Empire upon earth, In 1812,he blanched not nor quelled,
but seized it with a firm hand, unfolded the banner, and
gathered round it a company of volunteers in Chester
county, which he commanded, And with:wheat he did good
service, till en honorable peace waa"extorted from Greet
Britain. Ills friendship•ivail sincere and unsophisticated.
Ho had a heart to weep with theni that wept, Mad rejoice
with them that did rejoice, and an; open hand to givema
toilet aid to the bereaved. Five years since ho consigned
• the faithful partner of hie joys and of hie sorrows Villas
silent grave—alie had long Participated In his ardent.
labors and responeibilitles of training theirlzmily for
usefulness • and respectability, Ile bowed, his bead with
resignation in this sore bereavement—and since that time,
might, sparrow like, have bemoaned his loneliness, had
it not been for his affectionate children, with whom he
lived alternately, and all of whom were in circumatenees
to receive him gladly, and treat him kindly, unta the
earthly house Weenie too frail a residence for theft - I:mortal
spirit, and then they wiped away the last drop of death's
cold and clammy sweat from his brow, and returned the
Muff to the earth as it was, and the eplrit unto God 'Who
gave it. It hoe been our privilege to have long and inti
mate acquaintance with the deceased, and we never beer
an angry, profane, or unchaste word Aka fkomhis Drat.
nor has it bean our privilege to know An individual, to
whom the epithet, christian gentleman, was snore appli
cable. But it was christian character which chastened
all those qualities which adorned the character of our
departed friend. Early in life, the still small voice of the
gospel, sweeter far than the zephyrs of heaven, reached
hie oar and hie heart, inviting and gently consiraloiag
him to come out of the miry clay and set his feet upon
rock—and he resisted not theheasenly call, butconnected
himself with the Presbyterian Church at Octorara, then
under the ministry of the Rev. Dlr. Latta—and after may.
lug into Huntingdon county, he was elected and ordained
a ruling older in the church at Spruce Creek, which office
he filled with characteristic gentleness, till a few Months
since, when en a communion season, being too feeble to
moist hie brethren, we saw him fur ilia last time upon
earth, with trembling band and devotion of soul, com
memorate the death and suffering of hie Saviour in whose
presence be was so Soon to appear.
Adieu deer friend, and peace to thy dust. Thy exit has
left a blank never to be filled till time shall Cease and be
no more; "very pleasant hest thou been nnta
Never again shall we see thy eye beaming with delight In
the joy of thy friends, nor mingling a tear ha their sor
row. Never shall we again take sweet council together,
till we meet in that land of pure delight whore sorrowing
and sighing is dono away for evermore.
At the Huntingdon Dam, on Mon
day last, DAVID MILLER, aged 58 yrs.
On the Ist inst.; in Circleville, Ohio,
of typhoid fever, JUDITH LLoYn,daugh
ter of Joseph and Margarotta Stewart,
formerly of this place. • .
Shall we not meet in that bright land,
• Where parting words are Dover spoken,
And love is not a brittle band
So lightly broken ?
Shall we not all meet there to love,
With love that has no trembling Dare,
In that door beam tar far above
Thie lend of tears
COXILUNICATID:
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