Ely eflobt. HUNTINGDON, PA. Wednesday morning, Aug. 16, 1866 . W. Lewis, Editor and Proprietor Hugh Lindsay, Associate Editor. "/know of no mode in which a loyal cat wen may so well demonstrate his devotion to hts country as by sustaining , the Flag, the Comgitution and the Union, under all circum stances, and UNDER EVERY ADMINISTRATION REGARDLESS OF PARTY POLITICS, AGAINST ALL SSAI LAN TS, AT ROME AND ABROAD." 1.. Doi:tines The Borough Delegate Elections. WHO ARE THE SOLDIERS FRIENDS' . As an independent journal we feel it our duty to make public tho contest in this placo on Saturday evening last for the choice of delegates to reprosent the Union party in tho Union Con vention, which assembles at the Court House to day, (Tuesday.) Kennedy M. King and James Port, two reliable friends of the_ Union party, and pub licly plodged to 'support worthy and competent soldiers for all the offices for which they might apply, wore first named on Friday as proper genthimen for delegates. These men, not suiting the friends of John N. Swoope, David. Clarkson and other civilian office sock ere, Goorgo A, Stool and David Black, also_reliable Union men, were put up as SWoope men in opposition to King and Port. And now we invite the at• tention of the honest, Union voters of the county to tho Means resorted to by the friends of Swoops , & Co., to defeat King and Port. To secure the votes of the straight-out Republicans and the soldiers, Swoop's friends publicly asserted that . King and Port were pledged to support Capt. John Living ston, a Breckenridge Copperhead Demo crat, for the Legislature. This false charge, of itself, was sufficient to defeat King and Port—but the Swoope men were desperate, and they resorted to other dishonest means too numerous to mention, to accomplish their pur pose. They even represented to the loidic,v,hoysthat . Steel and Black wore in:favorof putting soldiers on the county tie,lcet for all the offices, the only epcpted - . With such IT,,Rnperupujout4 opposition against and Port their friends could not hope for 'success rhut.they" de tormiced :. - t:sitand fftst,an,d 'rote their. sentiments When the polls should open, in the. eve ping. The, polls opened--the voting continued #or _two , the mon .votingAs.King, and gorkweFo known to be decided:J.7%lon ,rnen,hgt of those goting, for Steel., ond, Black at least .4hlrty,lvere tit-rangers to ,our people, ARd yk . nniber of others always voted „ pithAho anti - WPTPAOY Iwkd will vote there agaig,this,fall„ „ - , A few moments„ before, the polls r olosed, wo.offored,tholotlowing resola- -P4Boived i a`bat , the . delegates elected. „be, instmettadytsksuppert t ip. the County Cohirelitien, soldiers for all the offices With nay riameil for. opposi ")irdn %'si-oopc & Co., was voted down, none, voting' for ' thoie . '4l6l3.deVot'ed' for King and Fort, end tbYeel or . four ; soldie'rs who had been - deeeliadfiWthe support of AligHt the' chair for a soldiers' Itiliot" - virds'`Voted down, Mr. one of ilits editors of ' the Jou'Pharif, - Aniei^ican, mOvod that `thik delegateff elected' - he instructed` to ,'ldt `'John N.'Swoope. This mo tion of course - Vreivailcd--none voting tigainstit luetfulaie in favor of a sol * -- diei ticket. Capt. McCahan's friends may si3k;`if the Swoope party in town ireiiiiionestly in favor of him for Sher iff, why did not Mr. Nash include him in his motion of instruction The hon.' est truth is plainly to be seem now— the Simope"party in town were forced to profess friendship for Capt. McCa han; the delegates may vote for him, but the'Journal Anierican faction, which includes the unscrupulous polit ical wire-workers of the town, are op posed, to him or any other Soldier be ing nominated for the office bf Sheriff. Their actions speak louder than words. Mr. Black and Mr. Steel are good men, and we shall watch closely how far they will cut loose froM the trick sters and carry out in , good faith the pledges made to the soldiers by their friends. ' Tun Sotorra rog OFFICE.—No are for the soldier for office—not the offi cer of a company only, but the private in The rear rank. If we could make the ticket to bo nominated to-day, wo would give the private soldier the pro femme° for all the offices. It is for the delegates to bring the right men before the Convention for nomination TIIE"ATLANTIC CABLE.—Sov en hun dred miles of the Atlantic cable were payed out, when the insulation was lost. The cause of this is unknown, and further particulars have not trans pired. Much of our space is occupied this week witii an - account of the hor rors of, the Andereonvillo prisou,,-- The'culprit'Wertz, who kept the pen, is . now in our bands, awaiting trial.— Let his punishment be caddo. proper tionate to the terribllnesti of his crimes. If6'.ccirbepr Making Turiller coonent, but will let our rea:ders judge, Who Holds the Offices ? Some civilians complain that the soldiers want all the offices. Wo will take the trouble to show the public how many of the offices of honor and profit this county is interested in are hold by soldiers: CIVILIAN. SOLDIER Congress, 1 Senators, 2 Representatives, 2 Judge, - I Associate Judges, 2 Prosecuting Attorney, 1 Prothonotary, 1 Sheriff, 1 Register & Recorder, 1 Treasurer, 1 • County Commissioners, 3 Directors of the Poor, 8 Auditors, 3 County Surveyor, 1 County Superintendent, 1 Huntingdon Post Office, 1 U. S. Revenue Collector, 1 U. S. Assessor, 1 • Asst.. U. S. Collector, . 1 Assistant Assessors, 5 Inspector, 1 '-STEI'IIEN Tho terms of nine of the above will expire this fall, leaving 22 civilians and three soldiers still in office. Now, wo prose to nominate soldiers for all the offices to be filled this fall, (Associate Judge might be excepted,)which would give the soldiers, in office, IS, civilians, 23. Now, to us this does not look like giving the soldiers all the offices, nor near as many as they are entitled to. We hope the delegates from every township in the county will offer wor thy and competent soldiers for the offi ces to be filled, and see that full just ice is done them. Tho Union party must show by its acts that it is honest. ly the friend of the soldier; if it fails to do so it will certainly be defeated at the next election and for years to come. ROW TO SAVE THEMSELVES.—A good project now opens itself to office-hold ers who aro, or will, be, disturbed by the importunities of a certain class of politicians—the office-seekers. Lot them boldly make the declaration that they will appoint none but those who have served their country in its hour of danger. This plan, we see, has been adopted, and works admirably; and should the course be universally pursued of making only soldier ap pointments, the anxious office-seekers would lose much of their anxiety, and their ambition grow "beautifully less." It will be seen that there( is as much policy as justice in rowtrding the val iant soldiers. The officer in high standing would certainly lose no sups port by making and fulfilling such a determincd declaration; but, on the contrary, the Soldiers and soldiers' friends would be loud in their praises. Such officeis as these we desire to see, and patiently await to see them con ferring the rewards that lie in their power upon meritorious and compe tent soldiers. DIDN'T KNow.—lt was surprising to hear men after tho election for dele gates on Saturday last saying that they were sorry they voted for the "civilian" ticket without thinking.— They professed they didn't know how the ease stood. ,To be sure, they wore told by certain individuals that that was the soldiers' ticket, but they did not hear the delegates Bay they were for soldiers, nor did they publicly pledge themselves to support soldiers for all the offices. King and Port, on the other hand, did- make such a public pledge, as those who could road could plainly see, and there is no excuse for men saying that they did not know how they were voting. They may, however, have the opportunity to make amends, and we hope to see them pro fiting by the opportunity. DELEGATE CONVENTIONS. —A corres pondent in the last number of the Shirleysburg Herald, signing himself "B," writes upon the above subject as follows. There is much truth in his remarks : • "On Tuesday afternoon the , annual farce of a delegate convention will be gone through with—the representa tives of the "dear people" meeting. in. solemn council to adopt a . ticket which has been "cut and dried" by the polith cal wire workers. We tell the people plainly that if they want a voice in the making of candidates for .County and District offices, they must become more demooratic and break down the system of Delegate Conventions. They must vote for the candidates direct in their primary meetings, the candidate re ceiving the largest number of votes in tho County to be the nominee. Will not the Convention next Tuesday adopt measures to make this the. rule of action of the Union Party of this County for the time to come ? It will, if the people take the trouble to elect delegates thereto who are favorable to the change and will attend to getting the right kind of a County Committee appointed for the ensuing year. Or if we must endure the delegate system longer, we Suggest that the_ Conven tions be held alternately above and be. low Huntingdon,say at Shaver's Creek and Mount Union." The guerilki Mosoby, who was captured at Alexandria, Va,, on the 101h,has boon released by order of the Secretary of War, on condition that he return to hie home and never again collie within the lithits of the depart ment without permission of the miti• tory nuthorities„ EirThe Agricultural Society meets this evening in Up (..19nrt, Ileum Andersonville. How our Soldiers were Murdered There —The Systematic Acts of Cruelty Practised by the Commanders of the Post—A Record of the Most Borri, ble Dads ever Committed' by Men— Another Illustration of "Southern Chivalry." To tho Editors of tho New York Evening Post There appears to be a disposition on the part of some of the public press to mitigate the offences and crimes of Major Henry Wertz, late the respon• Bible keeper of the stockade at Andor sonville, Ga., and to throw upon oth ers the responsibilities that justly at tach to those alone who were in im• mediate command of that prison. Be ing persOnally acquainted with most of tho officers who were stationed at Andersonvillo, and knowing much of the treatment of those who were so unfortunate as to have been confine in that Pen of horror, I have thought that n good condensed statement of how things wore managed and priso ners of war Were treated there might not be entirely unacceptable to your 'readers. I wish to be understood as not desis rous to forestall the action or opinion of the commission which is about to investigate this matter, or to add any thing to the feeling entertained toward Major Wertz. It is enough for him to rest, now and forever, under an oblo. quy that no time and no repentance can obliterate ; to feel within himself the unenviable pangs which the recol lection of his powerless murdered vic tims will ever arouse, and to know that whatever may be the award of a hu man tribunal his punishment is already decreed. ' Tho prison of Andersonville is a stockade of about eighteen feet high, the posts comprising it being sunk in the ground five feet. It originally comprised an area of eighteen acres, A but 1 -' - itsequently enlarged to twen ty:S . se , The enclosure is upon the 'ii I), looking toward the southi'iitibe. eit of which is a small brook, about five feet wide and as many inches deep, which furnished Water for the use of the prisoners. Within this enclosure were turned the prisoners as they arrived, and left to provide for themselves, tbore being no shelters, or arbors, or any kind of pro tection afforded, by trees or otherwise, against the burning storms, or the freezing winters. _ The position was selected by Capt. Winder, a son of Gen. Sohn H. Win. der, who was sent from Ricnmond for that purpose in the latter part of 1863. When it was suggested to him by a disinterested but humane spectator of his operations that it would perhaps be bettor to leave the trees standing within tho proposed stockade, as they would afford shade to the prisoners, he replied: 'That was just what he was not going to do; ho was going to make a pen for the Yankees, whore they could rot faster than they could be sent there.' And admirably did he accomplish his mission. The first commander of the post was Col. Persons, who was soon succeeded by John 11. Winder, with his son as Adjutant, his nephew as commissary and sutler, and Henry Wortz in im mediate command. of the prisoners. There were generally stationed there for guard duty from three to six regi ments of infantry, with one company of artillery; having a battery of six pieces, according to the exigences of the case, the number of prisoners then confined, or the fears entertained of an attempt to set theM at liberty by raid ing parties of United States troops. When prisoners were first received it was usual to subject them to a search for money, valuables, &c., which, os , tensibly, were to be restored when they wore released from captivity, but which, in reality, wont into the pock.. ets of those who controlled the prison. Notwithstanding a law of the Conte& eracy, expressly prohibiting the deal. ing in "greenbacks," yet the initiated —a few whose "loyalty" was unques tioned—could always obtain for a con sideration the greenbacks they re. quired. The writer of this was the foreman of the last grand jury which was cm. pannbled for Sumner county, Ga., and in the performance of his duties he had to investigate a largo number of pros. entments for dealing in the forbidden currency, which was brought against poor• Union mon in every instance. Struck by this fact, he resolved to ox• amino, as his positions gave him a right to do, into all the circumstances— where the money originally came from, who did the selling of it, indeed, the whole ?iticidus operandi, and ho elicited the fact above stated, how the money was obtained, that the, Winders and Wertz were the _ prinelpalS, acting through subordinates, in gathering bushels of plums, in the way of premi ums, &c. Meanwhile, the prisoners were left to the tender mercies of their jailor and commissary for their food, which might have been improved in quantity, at least, if their money had been left in their possession. At first it was customary to send a : wagon into the stockade every morns ing at ten o'clock, loaded With the ra tions for the day—bacon and corn bread, nothing else; but as the num ber of prisoners increased and the greed of gain grew upon the trio above montioned,.the corn bread was ruin. cod in its- quality, being then manu factured of equal proportions of ground field peas and corn, unbolted, unsifted, uncleansed, indeed, from the dirt and trash which peas naturally accumulate; and at last, when tho number of pris oners increased to over thirty seven thousand, the meat rations per week wore reduced to a piece of bacon; hit. each man, about three inches long and two wide, with ono pone of the bread above described per day. Then, also, the custom of carrying the prisoners' food into the'stockade in wagons was abolished. They drove up to the gates; which were slightly opened, and the scanty food, foul and unhealthy as it was, was thrown inside by the guard, to be scrambled for by the wretched prisoners, the strongest and those near est the gate getting the hugest sl u u•e, the weak and sickly getting none. I have mentioned the small brook which rune through the lower part of the stockade, and which supplied the water for drinking and washing., This brook has its rise in a swamp not far from the prison, and at no time, cer tainly not, for a lengthened period, was tho water suitable or healthy; but whea the ffeces and filth, the drainage of tho whole camp of prisoners, came to be suporadded to the natural unfit ness of the water for drinking or clean in g purposes,my reader can judge what thirst was assuaged, or fever cooled, or throbbing temples washed, by this floating stream of filth and disease! At any time, under the most rigid by. gienie restrictions, • it is difficult to maintain health aad cleanliness among a large body of men- , what do . you think was the condition of thirty-soy: on thousand half-naked, half starved men, .witbout any police regulations, undor norn,oral or restraining info eneeS the'4mnant who were fi. nally allthved to pass but of this mili tary Golgotha wore not wild beasts, unwashed, befouled devils, no thanks aro to be given to Henry Wertz for lack of effort to produce such a consum mation. When it rained, as it does in that climate almost continually during the spring and fall months, the soil within the enclosure was one mass of loblolly, soft mud, at least fifteen inches in depth, through which stalked and staggered the gaunt, half clad .wretch es thus . colifiped. The stench from the prison could be perceived for two miles, andriarmers living in the neighborhood began to fear for the health of their fami lies. As a consequence of this, the liospi tals—facetioug was Wertz in his horri ble humanity—were crowded to reple tion with the emaciated, starved, and diseased mart who wore trundled into . them. The hospitals were constructed of , logs, unbowed, the insterstices unfilled and open ; admitting the rain, without floors, cots, bunks, or blankets, filthy and fetid with the fostering, putrid bodies of the sick, the dying, and the dead. Words fail, language is impo tent to describe one of those dens of disease itnd death. I once mustered the courago,.impellod by the earnest entreaties of a. Northern friend, to en ter ono of them, to visit one who was tenderly reared, and walked in the best ranks of Connecticut society. I believed I bad seen before this what I deemed to be human wretchedness in its worst forms. I thought that I could nerve myself to witness mortal agony and :wretchedness and destitu tion, as I had' heard it described, with out blanching or trembling; but if the cOndensed horrors of a hundred "black holes" had been brought before my mind to preipare.ree for the ordeal, they would,haVe failed, to realize the facts . as I Saw them, fade'to face. I cannot, .in a - daily paper read by innocence and virtue, detail what met my sight on the occasion I refer to. I will not pollute any page, save the rec ords of the courts that must try the culprit for the crime of torture by dis ease and filth, with the details of that caravansary of horrible, intentional slaughter. For fear that some may think I have exaggerated, an episode ; here will, perhaps, dispel such illusion. Convicted by the horrible fact that was a stench in his nostrils, General Winder, then Commissary General of Prisons, but having his headquarters at Andersonville, was forced by decon ey, not humanity, for this ho himself asserted, to ask the aid of the Presi ding Elder of the Methodist Church of that circuit to adopt some means to alleviate the miseries and soothe the wretchedness of, .the poor inmates of that Andersonville hospital. This gen, tlemawiriolied the cooperation of the women of Sumter county, who respon ded with clothing and necessaries only, for these alone are allowed, to the amount of 'four was=on lands. Upon the day appointed, four ladies, acoom panied by their husbands, went to the prison and sought from the Provost Marshal *a pass, to take their benefac tions to the sick prisoners. It was re fused with a-curso. The party proceo, ded to Winder's headquarters, where Henry Wertz' was in company with 'the General. The demand for •a pass was repeated. Understand, the ladies were present, and the reasons given why the party - were there, in accord ance with Winder's special request: To their ustonishment, they were met with this reply "G—d d—n . you, have you all turned Yankees hero ?" "No General," responded the spokes. man of the party, "I am - not, as you knowolorNird aii hei.e• present; we have comov , las= you' requested us, through Rev. Mr. D, to bring necessa ry articles for the Federal hospital, and ask a pass for the purpose of do. livoring them." "It's a d—n lie I never. gave per mission for anything of the kind ! Be off with you, all of you I" AS if his fearless display of martial valor and gentlemanly bearing was not sufficient, Henry Wertz essayed to and did eclipse his General in profani- - ty and indecency—and I hero assort that if the lowest sinks of the most abandoned parts of your city were gleaned, they could not surpass the ribald vulgarity and finished profanity of this jailor, exhibited in the presence of refined andi "loyal" ladies. Shocked, terrified, beaten to the very dust with mortification, tho"par• ty retired, and, foiled in their efforts to succor the sick or alleviate the tor tures of the dying Union soldier, they gave their loads of clothing and food to a passing column of Federal prison ers on their way, to another place— Wien. They at least had the satis faction of knowing that some were benefited, even if they had failed in their efforts for those who most needed their assistance. During the last winter, which was unusually hold for Georgia, when the ice made an inch thick, no shelter, no blankets or clothes, no wood was pro vided ccr thawretehed inmates of the Prison. Squads were permitted, to the number of thirty, to go out under guard daily, for ono hour, withotit ax es or any cutting tool, to gather the refuse and rotten wood in the forests; and if they entstaid their time, they wore tried by drum-head court-mar tial, charged with violating their pars 010, and if' found guilty, were hung ! I myselfsavi three bodies hanging who were thus executed. Poor fellows, I thought ; God has taken pity upon you and given you deliverance from your cruel jairor. When you and ho meet, at another judgment seat, woo to him if his authority he found insufficient for this taking of your live; wretched though they he, My house was the resort, or, I shuld say,: refuge, of most of the prisoners who made their eseepo from Op stock ed°, ; and the 'tales of starvation and distress which they told would have molted .an iron heart. I must Ow my hurried account of what I had seen, It isifar from full; not one half had been told; by far the most has been left back from very shame, and in re spect to your readers. I have not embellished. . The pictures were too rough, the - characters too forlorn- for the flowers of rhetoric to bloom . in their presence., Broken hearts, crush ed spirits, and manhood trampled on, may answer as fitting subjects for the romancer's pen, but the horrible reali ty, so seldom seen, burns its images upon the beholder's soul, that no other impression can efface, and they remain life-pictures indeed ! . Another Chapter. Andersonville Horrors Continued.—The "bead Line" Described.—Death Cour ted to End . Misery,-,-How the DeUd TVere Buried. Mr. Ambrose. Spencer, whose first letter wo published a low days ago, has contributed another painfully interest ing narrative in relation to the inhe. manmonsterswho tortured our Soldiers in the prisOn pen at Andersonville. We reproduce the material portion of his statement: I have referred to the quantity and quality of the food given to the prison= ers, and have since boon asked if the country was really so destitute of pro visions as to require it. At the post quartermasters, at Americus, nice' miles from Andersonville, there was turned over to the United States Gov; eminent nearlytwo hundred thousand pounds . of bacon and, an Immense . amount of corn and other produce ; a larger quality was stored at Albany, forty miles lower down, and very con siderable stores at Oglethorpe,eighteen miles above Andersonville. These amounts wore continually increasing from tithes and purchases, so that it will bo seen that there was-no lack of provisions in the country wherewith to furnish the prisoners food. I have heard much of what is term ed the "dead. line;" few, however, know what is meant by ,it. After the completion of. the prison and its use, those confined there were nes customed to approach the stockade and look through: the openings between the posts, or talk to outsiders. After _the assumption .of command by Ma jor Wirz, he caused the prisoners to be notified that if they approached with in thirty feet of the stockade, they would be shot by the guards upon the outside. This limit of thirty feet was unmarked by.any line whatever; it was ideal, and loft to the arbi tory determin ation of men on guard, a majority of whom were as incapable of judging of distances, or of this distace of thirty feet, as were .the poor prisoners who were doomed, if they . transgressed it. The consequence was that weekly, yea almost daily, the prisoners wore shot down by the guards, When these thought they had transcended the im aginary lino •which separated thirty seven thousand human beings from eternity. Upon one occasion, a prisoner who had been confined there for more than a year, rendered desperate by hunger,. want and filth, preferring death to a life so unutterable miserable, after writing a last fond letter to his wife in Indiana, and bidding his friends around him farewell, deliberately ad vanced toward the side of tlio stock ade and calnily receiVed the well di rected shot of the sentinel that releas ed his soul from' the tortures which ho could not hider°, and which his Man hood su n k under. The southeast corner of the interior of the stockade was the favorite spot for this kind of practice by the execm tors of Wertz's will; for at this point the brook or stream to which.' have already referred entered the limits of the prison. lore the water was less tainted and befouled by the drainage of the hill, and afforded a somewhat more palatable drink; of .course this point was soughtin preference to any other. But wo to the unfortunate wretch • who ever reached with his arm beyond the preseribed bonds, to dip up a cup of better water than the reeking current below him offeriall A sentinel's bullet sent one.more spirit trembling. to its . God,while the wretch's body lay "prone and washed . in ( the very water that his less fortunate comrades must drink, until necessity forced its removal. How many were slain in this manner will never be known until the records of a book unscanned byMortill eyes be made Up in.figures of living light. ' • At a short distance from the stockade was the field whore the remains of the dead prisoners were suppoSed to be buried. As. if the tortures and degra dations of their Wretchod'life were in sufficient, the culminating stroke was given by their mode orinterment. In long ditches, scarcely two feet in depth, without coffin or cover, whithout oven the ordinary decent bomposing of their limbs, but carelessly hustled in to the bed which was to bo their last, thirteen thousand eight hundred shrunken, ghastly ; bodies have been tossed; and there they lie, 'an, "army of martyrs," whose cry Will go up to heaven's gato in unceasing peals, ask ing vengeance for the "deep damna tion- of their taking off." I know' not what the benevolent mission of Captian Moore may have, accomplished in this dreary but I. do know that three months ago . at least one tenth of the whole num ber there lying wore exposed; the dirt which had been carelessly thrown up on them having settled or - washed away, while legs and arms protruded hero and there, sad signal poets of down trampled humatiity,. natural monuments of fiendish cruelty. And over this Aceldama of the North's best and bravest could ho seen, the slift dows of the thousand buzzards' wings as they slowly sailed above the fester ing heaps, or, gloated with their horrid feast, gloomily sat and gazed upon others who followed to this die gusting banquet of death. rm.. The Temperance Convention it: Saratoga adjourned after pissing cer, tain resolutions in favor of the cause. A resolution to sustain reforinatory asylums for inebriateS was laid Upon the table. Unterinented wino was sug gested for use in Christian ordinances;. and a resolution- adopted requesting Physicians to proscribe anything but alcohol if they consistently can, A resolution t‘tbat we will not vote for candidates for legislative; judicial or executive 'Aces unless they.are mitted in favor of atringont bitory laws," was:negatiyed. Items about Home. Bounty ':l l 'aid.—Juniata county paid $114,495 Us local bounty under the last three calls for troops: Mute Sale.—A sale'Of Government mules came off in:Tatterson, Juniata county., at which the price averaged $lOO. Two mules were sold for $360 —ono bringing $l9O and the other $l7O Disappeared. Wm. W. Gingrich; postmaster and merchant at Mexioo,- Juniata ,eounty,borne onThurs. day, July 27th, to transact some busi ness at Harrisburg, since which. time he has not been - heard froth: It is feared he has met with foul play. Snake Bite.—A little daughter 'of Samuel Bdwman, reisiding in Geirtiany Valley, this county, was recently bit ten in the hand by a snake, while gath ering huckleberries on the mountain. The reptile darted from under tf rock, inflicted a bite, and made its retreat to its hiding place, escaping being;kill ed. The girl is, out of danger. Elopement—A boy, not more than 19 years of age, run off, with some man's wife, from Freedom Forge,..M.if flin county, a short time since. Par snit Was made; and the, runmvaye cap. tured. The only reason given by. the erring wife was that she likeci.the boy better than her husband. Cireus Day Fights.—Lowistown, like Huntingdon, was troubled with fights on circus day. A. fracas occurred un der the canvass, which caused a fright among the women. , The. fights. were generally between town and country, the showmen taking no part. Attempted Suicide.—A man r named Reuben Rider, -of Lewistown,. while under the influence of, liquor, a few weeks ago, attempted to conamirsui: cide by hanging. -He was fortunately discovered in the act,sand sent. to jail to sober up. • Per Capita, Tax.—The council of the borough of JohnstOwn have exempted from the payment of the per capita bounty tax all _officers and privates who have served in the United States army not less than two years,.andull who have been wounded and honora bly discharged therefrom, no matter how long their service. . . OIL COMPANY.-Anew oil company has been formed at Bedford underlhe title of the lkleig's Creek Oil Company with Samuel Shuck, of Bedford . as President. The lands of the,company are situated in the Ohio Oil ,Basin. Speaking of the oil,in this •basin . the Bedford Inquirer, says,:—This not require , refining , and , . sells "at four times the price of . Pennsylvania oil at the wells, so that .one, twenty barrel well will pay as, much per'day as an eighty barrel well in PennsYlva nia. At the present price,'*hioh is; 627,00 per barrel, it will pay.- '4540,00 per day, or 6162,000 a year.- , REED—CROUSE CASE.—The'Cotolier's jury, empannelled to inquire . into 'and 'true presentment make, relative-to the, killing of Deputy Provost Marshal JacOb CrouSe, by John P. Reed,'Jr., in Bedford, a' short time- Since; hi:ought in theirverdictin the shape of'a reff.u: lar indictment, the form being taken i ' most likely,. from Dunlap's .digest.l" The jury thus relieved the grand jury from any trouble in the premises,' and the prisoner `need only be arraigned and tried. The verdict set' forth "th'at ono John P. Reed, Jr., not having the fear of God before.his . oyes, hilt being moved and seduced by the insti , ation of the devil, on the first day of Zugust' one thousand eight hundred and stkty five, at the hour - of about nine.o'clOck in the same day, with force and arms, at the .town . of _Bedford aforesaid,. in and uPon the said Jacob CrouSa,Then and there being inthe peace 'God and the said Commonwealth, felonious. ly, violently,..and of .his malice afore-- thought, made an assault, and that the aforesaid John T's Reed, Jr., then "and there, with a certain pistol made of iron and wood, of-the- - Value - often. laes, - whiCh he, the-said John P. Reed, Jr., then and there held . in „his right, hand, charged with, gunpowder arid one leaden ball did inflict upon the . left breast Of the said Jacob Crouse, a' wound of the breadth of half an heti, and of the depth of about twelve inch. es, which said wound the said. John P. Reed, Jr, of his malice aforethought, and with the pistol aforesaid, did vio lently, feloniously, voluntarily inflict; and of which said wound the said. Ja cob grouse then And there instantly died; so the said John...P. Reed, - Jr., then and-there feldninusly killed and murdered the said Jacob Crouse;' against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania?! ng.. The Board of Managerti'of *the United States Soldiers' and Sailors' Home of Pennsylvania, have issued, a. card setting.forth . that they, design to locale the Home near Philadelphia; i to buy a• tract of land for tillage by the inmates, and for the erection Of shops' and machinery for light mechanical' and manufacturing labor,.with ootta, ges 'for the, occupancy of the inmates and their dependent families; and to provide a school for educating and , training to industry the young men and children Within the guardianship of the institution. The Home, is to be sup,; ported by the labor of its inmates. The Pittsburgh Soldiers' Homo, which will open in a few weeks, ; is not designed' as a work house, but a rest or home, in the fullest significance of the word.' .1:04, - The Now York Post comes to the following comfout;Ahlo conclusion, from tho best information at baud: The. estimate of all other expenses of :the government for -the year,ending June 36;1865, is under fifty millions of dollars. We •• thus arrive' at the'cOrn fortable conclusion that a total revenue of two hundred millions a year would be our entire burden,. if .we should - keep , the debt where it is. With the pres ent rates of "tiiii3, the eStimate of Ai. ceipts fOr the year ending• Jiine QQ, 1805, is three hundred and 'tint:V.olx millions _of dollars. We !night, there fore, this, day, cutAlown our taxes just one-half, and go on our way rejoic ing,. • (Dark. OUsttems. For all announcements of ten Hoag or lam E 2, to mer " additional line (ten" , Words to:slick) 20 cents—inyablo in advance. - MBLY EDITOR or•Otaisj 7 -Announce Carr. JCIIIN INGsToN, of , 'West; toirnship, a brave and iroanded sof- Aler t as a candidate for Assembly, subject to the decision of the Union County Convention. -jyl2•to A SSOPIATE JUDGE . . We are oavise . d to annomt. HOM-WAL B. LEAR as a ciindidate An; Associate Judge,tubject to the approval' .. of the ICrotott County. Convention.; ~ A -SSOCIATE - JUDGE• ThcieugAostion'coutulimdiatheJeurual cf• Amer- Wan otlaet week;brini;ink - foricard the name of TIIOIIIAS 11811ER:of Anti tlngdou; for, lisincintn,Jiidke mets,With decided approval in 00, ceetlon'et the cennty; .11r. Wier Lae been Jong known by tlki.thrtnevc,ln Able! *attar 'man of sounditulgutont nod strict ihtegilty, and Oto hue!, that he le the right man for the place • . Juno 14 '65-te PENN & WALKER., • • L We arerequested to announce JAMES k. BAR TIIIIBBT, of Spruce Creek,.lst Sergent of,Co. I," 6th Y. Y., as a candidate .for.the e.fhce of. Sheriff, sObJect to the docision of Ihe:Union conntk , Convintion. . &rift. B, is short of slog at tho first battle of Wederlckshurg—ho le a sober, moral and Indastriont man. • FRANKLIN. Franklin tpi Aug. 7, - 1Sal:-M. ": - .QttRIFF.• --"- .• ' We are requested to announce DAVID CLARKSON, Esq.: as a candidate for the office pf,Staarlff, subject-.to the decide - I:for thatilibn einnity ConTention:. ; jll* ri AND [DATE A._„i • are mithorizedionnncinnno cApt. TI10)f AS 8 AIcCAIIAN as a canqdafe for the office of Sheriff of firm tingdon county, subject to the 'approval of the Union Co convention to convene during - tbe month of August next Umitingdon,.llay 31, 18115:-1n* ' • _ • • • ANDIDATE• FOR 'SHERIFF.- I offer myself son clintlitrate for the office or Sheriff' o liuntingden . county, . subject to , ;the dechdon• of the- Colon County Convindon, to be held In August next. Cromwell townehtp.:t , JOHN fy.t.SHHNEFHLT.'t ?dr, Shenefelt Is a respectable and Intelligent farmer of Cromwell toutoshlo, igloo ytaten Ah6l-htf , does ;Obi - intend Canvassing the county to secure delegates, as b. ".bas not -. 11 b 3 time nor lhn.rlogite to - do • . . _ lINTY ' TREAURER- ..• C ° We'eie requested' to annorince - Captein THOMAS B. SHED. or Huntingdon, an a candidate for the OtHCOD, of County Treasurer subject to the approyal of the Linton Couty Conventio n. ' .: , ; i . . ". l'., -n liuntingdon, Juno iO, 'OS-. ' " , .. EASURER, - ,-. ' ,:.:, • Ma. tntfeli..iPlense Rola:lune..the name of HENRY 3 1 . SMITH,- as el candidate for ,Treasurer subject, to the decision of Union County Convention. , . . 1 • Mr. Smith enlisted as a prifate in the company , raised by Copuitii J; If. Wintrode. in September, 1881, and siev ed with hie regiment (the fad Penna. Vols.) throughiiiit thewar'.' After the battle of Nalr Oaks, in Juno 1862, ho was promoted to ,tho 2cl Lieutenancy of his cordpany; tied eery ed in that capacity until January ist, 188 S, when he woe promoted to. °entail:lond lield,thet comndssionnti•• Mlle end of the war. - lie was engaged In every .battle fought by the army of the Potomac until the time of his capture in Juno,lBlll, before Petersburg: . _ --, lie was - severey wounded at thottit baltioef Please. ickeburg, and also at the battle of Gettysburg. He still carrigifin . bleshoulderithe bait received at* Gettjaiburg, and experienced all the horrors of the robel prisons for nine months. '1 :' ;.. , .Y. : ,;:' ,: .. . . .. -.-.. . . ne is a young man, good character and fully competent to discharge the datids of the °Mao. , ) :4' June2l 1865* . wnfacEtt TOWNSHIP PTRECi'OR O.F We announce TIENRY A. MARE, ofJuniata town shipea suitable candidate for Direotor of the Peer at tho coming October election. . Mr. Mark wall eleeted to fill the Unexpired term of Mr. ilackedorn,.who removed to. the Week nolo. acquainted with thO affairs of tho Dlrectorehlp, and helot a shrewd businessmen, honest,.courteoua and humane, with the experience helms obtained, It etill be decidedly to the interest of.the tax payers, , to realest him, .Theall, rectorship is one of, the' meat Important 'Oftloes' Of the County, and should he judiciously filled. - In presenting Mr. Mark for re.eleetien, vet do it tO view. of hie acceptance, and,the concurrence of : the Delon Non, Inating Coavention:L , ShirisysbuiP Ecraid. je27'os . . NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. BILL POSTER: , ureledde . elf of bis men arid othere desirrnecireularedistrjbat; t delliedd in bt e lre, posted: lie din be etlto>