AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. JOHN fi BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor CARLISLE.PA., OCTOBER 10, 1861. OUR FL AG. Where breathes the foe hut falls before ust With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom’s banner waving'o’er its!” VICTORY ! VICTORY !! ELECTION OF JUDGE GRAHAM. AND THE WHOLE DEMOCRATIC TICKET ! OLD CUMBERLAND ON THE SIDE OF REASON AND RIGHT! OUR AVERAGE MAJORITY FOR THE WHOLE TICKET 500 OR 600! The Tonnage-Tax Swindle Condemned. “We have met the enemy and they are ours;” wo have pained a glorious and substan tial Victory. Our opponents resorted to the most desperate expedients, both fair and foul, and circulated all sorts of lies concerning our candidates, calling " them “ secessionists,” “ rebels,”. &c. The people have answered those slanders in a proper manner, and have staming their authors as falsifiers. The maturity for Judge Graham in this county will ho about 433. For the'balance oDthe ticket our majority will be from 400 to 600. In our. next wo will give the official vote. ..The following are the reported npjjorities'in the several townships on the Judgeship, and arc correct almost to a figure : Carlisle district, Shippensburg, Silver Spring, Middlesex, Hampden, Hopewell,' Leesburg, ■Tnekaunvills, Newvitle, Penn, Pickinson, Upper Allen, Lower Allen, Meohanicsburg, Monroe, ' - ■ .West Ponnsborough, Hast Ponnsborough, New Cumberland,. JUNIATA COUNTY 0. K. \ despatch from Juniata county informs o lat Judge Graham’s majority iu that Co. , ..bout 140. PERRY COUNTY, We have no nows from Perry, expect a ru mor that the Democrats have elected their lick- A Quiet Election. —Never did we see so litile excitement on the day of our general election on Tuesday. It was the customary remark when you met any one on the street, —“ wo are having a very quiet election.” Men went to the polls, voted and then went to their work. There were no crowds of drunken men 1 around the polls, challenging men’s votes who werocitizonsofourtown when they wore swaddling’clothes. Wo heard of no rows, and, although, as usual, " tangle foot” Dowed freely at the expense of candi dates, the whole election passed off noiseless Jv. IC7-J.W. Smiley has just opened a large and most desirable assortment of Winter Clothing for men and boys. Also one of the largest stocks of hoots and shoos ever brought to '.Carlisle, together With a general’assort ment of hats, caps and every other article be longing to a furnishing.establishment. Do not fail to give him a call as lie prom ises to you both in quality and price- lie will lot no man undersell him. Yu will find his now etc re-room between Ilei man’s Hotel and Huyott’s corner, Carlisle. A Fatal Accident to a Soldie -.—One of the men belonging to Col. St.iub.uigii’s regi ment fell from the cars about two miles west of Carlisle, on Monday evening last, and was instantly killed, having been cut literally in two.’ An inquest was held upon the body by Coroner Smith. The man was so much muti lated, that ho could not bo recognized. Tne Falling Leaves. — A sweet singer of merry Old England onco wrote, “Loaves have their time to fall”—and that melancholy time is here, and ns the wind whistles without, and we see the leaves sailing along like little ves sels on the wide ocean, a pensiveness falls upon us—so much like the fading away of sumo dear heart, affectionate and beloved, passing away to the silent land. Hut ought we not look up to their mighty monuments in stead of bosoming saddened at their decay ? Behold how fair, how far prolonged in arch and aisle, the avenues of the valleys, the frin ges of the hills! So stately !so eternal 1 the joy. of man, the comfort ol all living creatures, the glory of the earth, they are hut monu ments id'thoso poor leaves which flit faintly past us to die. Let them not pass, however, without dur understanding their last counsel and example; that wo also, careless of inuuu mfeut by the grave, may build it in the world's monument, by which men-bay be taught to remember, not when and where we died, but wireu an tMrovrsrri 1 vedr~So mueirfor the lesson of the leaves. ’ j6@s“ Gen. James Shields has declined the appointment of a Jlrigadier-Clenoral, ho hav ing rumored from California to Sinaloa, in Mexico, to recruit his failing health. Tj|IIK LATE Clll. JOHN A. WASHINGTON, Tlio abolition _ papers arc making merry oyer the death of Col. John A. Washington, a descendant of tho groat patriot whose illus trious name lends honor to everything with which it is oven 'remotely connected.' lie was killed, recently, our readers will remem ber, by a scouting party of Unionists near Elkwater, Virginia. Ho was in command of a small squad of rebels, when tho two par ties mot, and our men fired, killing one man, and that man proved to ho Col. Washington, a relative oftho Fatherof his Country! The Abolition journals, wo say, are jubilant be cause of-the fall of this man, but most men will fool sad to think that the blood of a Wash inoton, shed by the hand of a brother Ameri can, stains the soil of the Old Dominion, tl e homo of the patriot father whoso memo ry we have been .taught to revere. The cir cumstance is certainly nothing to cause mirih, but should rather make us consider, with sor rowing hearts, tile drendfulncss of this dread ful war. John A. Washington, it is true, was an officer in the rebel army, and as such arrayed himself against the Government his ancestor had gained after twelve years fight ing. lie had no right, ■therefore,' nor did he, expect anymore leniency to.be shown him, than uny other rebel officer. When our men fired upon him and his party, they did not.'know, him, and had they known him tbev would still bo ful ly justified. But, now that hb sleeps in his gory grave,arid.t*another Washington is gone!" • let not the Abolition vultures insult human nature by making .'merry over his blood; Bather let the people regret the mistake, iho man made, and drop a tear for his name il not for him. ■ " Several of the Abolition journals, however, are in error ( and perhaps it is because of this error they rejoice so much, ) when they say that John A. Washington was the man from whom old John Brown stole a sword the night the old sinner with his party of despe radoes, pounced upon Harper’s Ferry, and mur dered a number nfeitizens of the place, and f r which he and several of his band- suffered death on the gallows. The stolen relic was I Gen. G'eorge Washington's war sword, and was valued beyond .price. . But it was not in the ‘keeping ol John A. Washington, nor was if stolen from liini, but from bis un cle, another Col. Washington, whose first name we cannot now call to mind. John A. lived at Mount Vernon, and was owner of, that sgcred spot. Our Carlisle readers may remember the Col.' Washington from whom thcsword was stolen. lie was before our Court, here in Carlisle, at the trial of llazi.et one of John Brown’s desperado followers at Harper’s Fcrrv. He was a witness against the prisoner, and was an old, .white-haired heavy, lamp man, of fine benevolent appear-, once. He still resides at Harper’s Ferry. Graham. T Tails. 20 31 217 19 10 47 14 36 . 189 16 17 20 10 The Republican journals are therefore en- tirely in error when they say that John A. Washington was the man from whom old Ossawatamic Brown stole the sword. They have bad so much fun over the fall of John A., that they may consider >t cruel in us to correct the error they have fallen into, and for doing which iheypnay possibly call us a “ secessionist,” but still we felt it right and popor to rectify their mistake. 56 49' 44 40 24 The leading Republican newspapers of Massachusetts'are “down’* tip M/. Charles Sumner’s recent emancipation speech in the Republican State Convention, -all agree!tie that the rep’tition of hisannual pavings abmii the barbarism of slavery was out of place at tills time. This is one of the signs of the limes. Loss than a year ago such speeches were received with acclamations in Repaid! oatv Cnn.venJ.ions, Another significant .sign nf the drift"of public opinion was tho refusn'. of this Convention to pass a resolution in fa vor of negro emancipation in accordance with the sentiments expressed ’in Sumier’;- speech. And still another of those signs ist> ho found.in the expression of opinion like the following, in the Springfield ( Mass.). Jlepuh lican, whose editor was present at the Con vention : “ After the reading of. a very superfluous string of resolutions, Charles Sumner came upon the platform* and was received wirli warm cheers; and as lie was introduced and went off into the usual anti-slavery speech, wc could not help thinking of Mr. .Wemmick’s little cannon, touched off bo regularly at sun set in “Great Expectations.” Every year, as it comes around ami brings a convention, brings out Mr. Sumner in a full dross and' a speech, which proves that lie has sworn never to talk of anything )nit slavery, with,, perhaps, a mental reservation touching him self. The ‘aged parent’ is .always present to hear the gun go off, ami to express his delight with the noise. Wo could not hut feel tha’ Mr. Sumner’s speech was ill-timed and out of place.” • . R’SIaGVSEOV M£i3R3 Mvt’lU' IV 3 Ilutais. —Wo alluded a few'days since to the return of Henry Magraw, Esq., of Lancaster, wh was confined in Richmond as a prisoner of war In relation thereto the Iliclimtud fixuniiwr •>! a recent .date speaks thus of the release of Messers. Magraw and Harris:—Messers. Ma graw and Harris who improperly came within our lines from Washington, D, C., after the battle of Manassas, on the 21st iff July, and who were detained in custody therefor fortwu months past in this city, have boon released b} the Secretary of War. nothing appearing to show that they were cither alien enemies or inimical to the government of the Confede rates States. Their position, ,ns prisoners, heretofore, should not deprive them of their reputation as high minded ami honorable gentlemen. In justice to them, wc will state a fact, communicated from tv reliable source, as to their future destination. Mr. Han is will leave in a few day's to join his brother Kentuckians, ami Mr. Magraw,.a native of Maryland, will return to his own State. Senators Breckinridge and Powell. —In the Senate of Kentucky, on Monday-, Mr Whittaker offered, a resolution requesting i John C. Breckinridge and Lazarus W. Pow ell to resign their seats as Senators in Con-, greas, os they do not represent the will of the people of Kentucky. The res datum was passed by a vote of 20 tos. On Tuesday, the, . resolution came—up-in-tho—llnnadr-ntid-wn-v -adopted—yeasdO, nays 30.. The Senate of the United States, in case Messrs. Breckinridge and Powell refuse to resign, is requested to investigate their conduct, and, if found to he in opposition to'the Federal Government, that they Ci-pol them from their sente. Good Signs. Rtf, Dr. De Will of ,Harrisburg. Wo were surprised, a few days ago, at see ing in the papers a statement that the vener able Dr. Do Witt, of Harrisburg, had used language of a highly objectionable and trea sonable character, in his sermon on Fast Day. The substance of his offensive remarks, as al leged, was that “The North had violated their covenants with the South, and were responsible for the crisis with which the country was convulsed." Dr. Do Witt is, and luis boon for thirty or forty years-past, tho revered pastor of tho Old School Presby terian Church'of Harrisburg, and a truer pa triot or purer'Christian never lived. Wo were, therefore, reluctant to beliovo that bo was.guilty of using language in his pulpit to to which any of his congregation could take exception ; aud are glad to find our doubt con firmed by the following accurate sketch of ills sermon, which completely refutes tho charge that it contained anything of a disloyal nature. The report originated in tho Harrisburg Tele graph ; with .-what motive, may perhaps bo understood, when wo state that Dr. Do Witt holds the office of State Librarian, at a salary of §lOOO a year, which some hungry attache of tho Telegraph office would probably liko to have: Di\ D commenced his remarks, which Vero extemporaneous,, by endorsing in the strong est language the. President and Administra tion, in every measure they Jmd adopted, lie denounced the rebellion as wicked and mad, and expressed his conviction that so great were the issues at stake that no man,should’ hesitate to sacrifice his all to bring the* re bellion to a successful' termination. lie re joiced that the Administration had expressed the determination'to uphold' the Constitution and Jaws as they now existed. That this was a ground on which there should he no division of sentiment. ' That .upon no other ground could" there be unanimity of sentiment. That he feared there were .divisions of -sentiment growing up at-thc North which would bo fa tal to success, and for this, reason ho urged unity of sentiment, and that unity based upon onr.President's proclamations.. That should the .destruction of slavery and not the main tenance of the Constitution be tlm issue, wo would be liable to the charge of being consti tutional covenant breakers with the loyal, men of the South, and would alienate from our cause "Western Virginia,. Eastern Tennes see. Kentucky, and Missouri; These, as ,ho understood them, were the Views of our President, and he prayed .God that the-President might ho firman this “ no ble stand which ho had taken," lie urged most strongly the laying aside all “ partizan feelings" aiid uniting on this broad and no ble pfatform. Success then would be certain. In conclusion' ho prayed. earnestly for our President and Governor,’their Cabinets, our Generals, and our armies, and for the com plete overthrow of this unrighteous rebellion Tone of the South western Press. The Boston Journal, remarking upon the contents of a late file of Now Orleans papers received at that office, holds the following anguage ‘‘The general tone of the papers, we may remark, is far from being enthusiastic. ’ There ■smithing of the bullying, braggart stylo of writing which the same columns evinced last winter. It is pl’airi that the events of the war aa\e brought sober ideas. ■‘The su-pension. of specie payment by the New Orleans banks, heretofore considered thq strongest in the. Union, is by itsolf an omi nous slop.- The Confederate Government-is now running on Treasury notes with ho ascor .a,nablc basis. This wits rendered painfully dear so long as the New Orleans banka were ay.ng specie," for nobody there would have ’■ .iftiling to do with Treasury notes! .".In or iel'. therefore to give those notes the look of .1,1 available currency, the banks had to come down to their own lewd, by shutting their spe-. cio vaults out of-com petition, taking the notes themselves, and debasing their own issue to the same standard. . ■ Rut against this step was the Constitution, if L tuisiana, from the penalties of which nci iher.the Legislature nor Governor could re move the batiks.' The recommendation of the latter official is so much waste paper in miti gating this gross violation .of the -State Con oitution ond laws,by whioh the banks ofLm- Mima signalize their unavoidable plunge into he sea of financial anarchy, and ruin. The Rmfusiun which at once arose for want of -mail change is only the beginning of troubles. “These papers render it clear that King Col on V* breathing his last. In the great market »f New Orleans, ‘thirteen bales sold-on Satur day, nineteen on Monday, andsevontecn yes terday 1* Such is the record at random. We quote again: ‘ll7 bales, against 23,014 bales Hiring the corresponding period last year. But as there arc about 10,000 hales in store j and export-is- put' down at ‘OOO/ there will be 8 miethiug wherewith to fortify New Orleans thus, of course, subjecting it to confiscation, ami enabling our troops to epjoy the honor of re-opening tlie cotton trade with Europe. “With/cotton nowhere, pork at forty dollars per barrel, and hay fifty dollars a ton, in the middle of -September, it may readily be im agined that the hopes of the Rebels are not sanguine as they look forward to the coming whver. With those facts also are various in sinuations as to the lukewarmness of individ ual-, the incompetcncy of the leaders, and the unreliability of certain classes, which enter into the tone of these Southern, papers and add to its gloomy ’character.” The President and Gen. Fremont. The Springfield (Illinois) Journal, the home •rgan of President Lincoln, edited by his neph ew. administers a strong rebuke to those Re publican journals who opposes the President and sustain General Fremont. In alluding to the Chicago Tribune, a type of this class of journals, it says; “ 'fho Tribune seems to he hont on mischief. Its abuse of President Lincoln for Ills order, modifying Fremont’s proclamation so that it shall conform to the law, is sweeping and with out qanlitleati.ii>. It takes emphatic issues with the Government, and is doing all it can t> weaken anil destroy public confidence in ipt war policy. It may not lie aware of the fact but it is dividing instead of uniting the people. It is giving aid and comfort, not to the Gov ernment, but to those who would bo glad to see treason triumph. The dictatorial spirit with which it tells Mr. Lincoln on what prin ciples and with what policy this war ahull he conducted, and its intolerance of any other than its own views, are decidedly refreshing.” New Counterfeit. —Peterson's Detector sends us the following description of a how and dangerous counterfeit five dollar.note on the Citizens’ Bank, Middletown, Delaware: s’s, altered, and splendidly done. Vignette— Suspension bridge and surrounding country scene ; train of cars and “5" on right; female holding “ 5” on left. > ' , Eager to See tub Elephants. —Lasf Sab bath afternoon, while the minister at Reads liotii'. Vt„ was in the midst of hin sermon. tho entire audience suddenly rushed into the street to see some elephants belonging ton travailing show, which was passing the church, Tito preacher waited patiently be hind his breastwork for a time, and then fin ished his discourse to a small number of Ills parishioners who had sufficiently composed their leeliugs to return. jRFF.bAVis’s Oarlnf.t.— Twnohangcs have bctiu mado in Jeff. Davis’ bogus confederacy Gahinctainoe its formation on the 6th of'March la’st. Robert M. T. Ilunttr.of Virginia, has been made Secretary ofStnlein placSfpf Rob ert Toombs, of Georgia'j'and'Braxtnn Bragg,, of Louisiana, has suecceded Loroy P. Walker, of Alabama, as Secretary of War. The Ca binet as now formed te-Adfollows:— Secretary of State—Bpho'rt M. T. Hunter, of Virginia. ' o?* - Secretary of the 'greasury—C. L. Mom mingcr, of South CaroßljJi. Secretary of War—-Bratton Bragg, ofLoui aiiina. Secretary of the Navyr—Stephen R. Slallo ry, of Florida. , . > ' . Postmaster General— John 11. Reagan, of Texas. Attorney General—Judah P. Bohjamin, of Louisiana. The Very Stones Cry Out Against Them.—A gentleman- who recently visited the national Capitol; copied the following in scriptions from two blocks of marble awaiting their places in the Wnshinfien Monument. The blocks wereordered by the Legislatures of the respective States; “ LOUISIANA. " Ever Faithfui, to the Constitution and the Uniqn;” "TENNESSEE. “ The Ffdeual Union. : It Must be Preserv ED.” . Could,a more fitting rebuke lie administer ed to these States, which have proved^false to their own .’principles,'than we have in those words graven upon stone by the States them selves ?—New York Observer • O' If the President- were, to draft every man into the army wife is lying about home denouncing bis neighbors ns "Secessionists,” bo would soon have a force numerically strong enough to overrun tho entire SouthA . What is tho patriotism of a man worth who spends bis time in impeaching the loyalty of his neighbors and is yet.very careful to keep oiit of tho ranks himself? —Clinlon JJimocrat. ■'V ‘ Ciipt. Coppinger, nn English officeivlnto in the Papal military service, has been commisr sionod a Captain in bur Volunteer service, nn the recommendation of his Holiness the Pope of llomoi This makes the fifth Euro pean monarch who has recommended officers for service in ‘ the-Uiiitcd States, —Public Ledger'. . ‘ Head the above,, ye old Know-Nothings, and give us your opinion as to the propriety of permitting the Pope of Homo and other European monarchs the-officers for our army. Eor the first time in our history foreigners are directly interfering, in Ameri can affairs ; , for.the first time tho Pope of Home demands an influence. Rude, if not Rebellious. —The Chicago Post, a very, decided war paper, in noticing the subject of “treasonable” newspapers, makes the very pertinent' inquiry, why no grand jury of the loyal city of Boston has ta ken official notice of a newspaper there, called the Liberator, which over since the commence ment of the war, has tpptdisplayed at the head of.its-columns, thetraitorous and infamous sentiment, (so, uncivil to the President and Cab inet,. too,) “ Constitution of the United Slates is a league with Hell and a covcnan with the Devil!” ■: Colored LAwyERSi n Boston .—job n S .Rock, M. D„ has orvexamination, as a mcmber'or tb‘h 1 58HSr<il*v'bar in Boston, mak ing, the third African descent now practising in-the'cnirts'of thatcity, , Cvttle' fob hie Armt. —A largo nunibor of,cattle have beep- daily passing over the Northern Central rhilroad during a week past, intended for army . .use, They wore princi pally from Cataiiqua county, in i\ow xork. Ex-President Van -Buhen.—On the 23d ultimo the village of Canandaigna, N. Y., was ■visited 1 by ex Frc’iidertt. Martin-Van Ouren, who has been staying some weeks at lAilton accompanied by his son, the lion. John Van Curcn, and other friends. The venerable,ex -I’resident is now 79 years of ago, and as fresh and vigorous, both physical anti mentally as he was” thirty years ago. UoDBERT’A-r AViIBATi.AND—On Saturday morning, the eniviage-.housc »1 ex-I resident Buchanan, at Wl.oa.tland was l.n-hen open and a very valuable set of.double harness car ried off. This harness was purohased at Washington ,by Mr. Buchanan s,loltl y ! * ft ® f his inauguration as President, at a C live hundred and thirty dollars, dt tvas heavily mounted with silver. Bv=An old bachelor says that the talb of women is usually about men —oven their laugh is but lie! he! he! How a Mon Feels under Fire. The Philadelphia American thus reltifbs how, a soldier fuels during battle: , Wc yesterday stumbled upon a volunteer on furlong, who first smelt powder at Bulls Hun. During an hour’s chat with him, he gave us.a very good- general idea of the way in which a man Teels when uuder an enemy’s gun. Our ■friend did’nt claim to be especially courageous, lie placed due value upon the integrity of the American eagle, but enlisted because bo bad no other employment at the time, .lie ditl camp duty faithluly, and endured the hardships of long marches without any spepial Tbat-he dreaded to confront the enemy he freely admits. While willing at anytime to kick a bigger man than himselt under justifiable provocation, ho disliked the idea of the sudden sensation imparted by a bayonet thrust in the while only second to this was his horror of being opt down with a rillo ball like an unsuspecting squirrel. Wliou his regiment was drawn up in line, lie admits his teeth chattered and his knee pans rattled like a pot closet in a hurricane. Many of his comrades wore similary allectcd, and some of them would have laid down had they dared to do so. -When, the first volley had been intcrchangedj our friend inlorms us every iracobf these feelmgs.pasaod away from him. A ic iction took place, and he became almost savage from excitement. Balls whistled all about him, and a camion shut cut in half a companion at his side. Another was struck by some explosive that spattered his brains over the clothes of our informant, but so far from intimidation,,all these things nerved up his resolution. ,Xh.o hitherto quakingcivili n in half an hour became a veteran. His record shows bo bayoneted two of his dnemios and discharged eight rounds of his piece with as decisive and aim ds. though he had selected a turkoy.for his mqrk. Could the entire line of an army come at the same time into colli sion, lie says there would bo no running ex cept after hopeless defeat. The men/\Vho played the runaway at Bulls Run wore men who hud not participated in the action to any extent,, and who became panic stricken whore, if once smelling ppwder in the manner above described, they would have boon abundantly victorious. In roar of musketry and the thundering discharge of artillery there is a music that banishes even innate cowardice. Ti'ho aiglitof men struggling together, the clash of sabres, the tramp of cavalry, the goro stainod grass of the battle field, and the coming chargo of the enemy dimly visible, through the battle smoke—all those, says our iiitolli geut informant, dispel every particle of fear, and the veriest coward in the ranks perhaps becomes the most tiger-like; OCTOBER. “But farmer, look, where fuU-onrod sheaves of rye Grow heavy on the tilth, that soil Select For apples; thoneo thy industry shall gain Ton-fold reward; thy garners, thence with storo Surcharged, shall hurst; thy press with purest juico Shall flow, which, in revolving years, may try. Thy feeble foot, and bind thy flattering tongue., A;" Who’or expects his laboring trees should bond With fruitage, and a kindly harvest yield, Bo this his first concern : to find a tract Impervious to tho winds, begirt with hills,. That intercept tho Hyperborean blasts . Tempestuous, and cold Burns’ nipping force, Noxious to foohlo buds.”—PuiLir’s " Cider.” Brown October is Injro with its bursting barns and full granaries, its fnlliNg leaves anth fruit. The season admonishes us to plant fruit trees, as well as to gather in the limit harvest. AVhy is it, that so many farmers’ families are content to go without fruit, in a land whoso soil and climate' are so congenial to fruit that tho humblest efforts at horticul ture are rewarded with success ? Intelligent nomologists,' who have scon tho fruit shows of Europe, toll us that they do not excel our own, notwithstanding their larger experience and skill. Tho apple grows almost every whore in our broad land, and most of the largo fruits have quite ai wide a range of soil and cli mate, though they are much loss abundant. Apples have been most common, probably be cause they wove tho most common fruit of the father land, and wore planted by the first settlors of the country. They wore found to flourish much better hero than there, and the seedlings Which were soon originated up on American soil, were improvements upon' any, tiling even seen in England. In a virgin, soil, the tree would grow anywhere witii lux uriance, and only needed .In have a clear field to y.eld abundant fruit. The pear was rath er an aristocratic tree, and needed much more careful .culture.'in England than the apple tree. Here the standards .flourish quite as well ns tho apple-tree, and seem to have few er enemies, and to ho, quite as- productive. — Yet the market lias never been adequately supplied, and . the finervarieties of pears bring two and three times as much as the best varieties of applbs. A pear 'orchard of any considerable extent is still a novelty Oven in. tho oldest parts of tho country. Apple or chards, though common, arc still "far below tho wants of the country. Hundreds of farms where tho apple is as hardy as the forest oak, are still without a good 01 chord. It is some what amusing to bear tho reasons assigned by thriving farmers for the great mistake in. their husbandry, of-not planting an .orchard? It is never aemitted that they do not love fruit. Thoto. is hardly rt rtian or woman in a thousand that is not fend of every variety of fruit. Every boy sighs for his neighbor’s ap ples and pear trees, and licit only breaks the tenth, but tho eighth commandment, in tho eagerness of his desire. .Watermelon patches are proverbial plunder on moonlight night's. With many the reason of this failure is their unsettled condition. They do not own tho soil they cultivate, or they are expecting soon to sell out and emigrate. The planting of an orchard is regarded as a .work for another generation. Others do not believe that the’ raising of fruit pays as well as other departments of husbandry. ..Jn tho first- place, one has to wait several years before ho .can expect any returns whatever, for his labor. In raising corn and' potatoes there is something to self, every Fall. Fruit has many enemies not only in the shape of insects but of bipods,-who seriously interfere with the profits of the or chard. Some are remote from a good mar ket, and though the d"pot is‘within nn htmr’s ri'do of tho farm,- they have never thought nl railroad-conveyance to a market. Othersad mit tho advantage of planting nn orchard, and have always been intending to do it, but they have had so much work upon their hands that they have never quite got ready. Money is scarce, and the nurseryman wants cash. These objections, however unsubstan tial,- are real to many farmers, and possibly to, some of our readers. ; We have been eating fruit for throe years, from apple.trees planted only eight years ago, and from pear trees planted much more re cently. They bear with increasing abun dance every year, and it seems to us so feasi ble and so prolitable, to stock an acre or two jS’ith fruit trees, that we cannot let the sea son,of tree planting pass wyithout'.n word oi exhortation; A home surrounded with, well grown frub trees mid vinos adapted to the soil and cli mate, is one of the most beautiful objects \ve. inept with at this season of the year. Every one admires the dwelling, however humble, that looks out upon the street,, through sha ded waits, through fruitful gardens and or chards., What can be finer than a well grown pear tree, hung with its yellow, fruit, an ap pie whose boughs are . bonding to the ground with their ruddy burden, or a vino loaded with jtspurplo clusters. ■ These are cheap and substantial ornaments, that any man- may plant around his homo. : The groon upon his windbw, and the paint on the dwelling will require frequent expensive renewal; every returning Spring will- bring out the living ormniiCnts in new dross without money and without price. • , There is no greater misconception than the pi.-milar notion that fruit growing does urn poy no well.as other branches of.husbandry. It requires 0.-'Uic capital, some skill anil pa tienoo to wait, l?i returns. But capital ami skill invested here .are certain to have their reward. It is no uii-wmmoii return for an acre inapplo trees to yiclJ-a hundred.dollars, while under favorable circum.?.hinees ami high cultivation, the. yield is two or three times greater.. Farmers, who have, gone ly into fruit culture,'arc genera ly the best satisfied with it. It furnishes something sell, from August until March. The early ap pies have to he markcted.in their season, hut the Winter varieties can wait lor good prices Irani three.to six months without damage to tu.eir quality.. Fears, though more perisha lilo.than apples, and requiring more skill in their handling and ripening, are enough high er in price to make them profitable. Not .the least advantage of mi abundant supply of fruits in the family, is their influ ence .apun health. At this season of the year they are a' great safeguard against fevers amt diseases of the bowels, and were they freely .oaten in all our families,, the sick list would be greatly diminished. The craving of child- Von for fruit, almost universal* is not so much an evidence of total depravity, as the working of instinct, seeking what it does nut find in bread and meat. Tlion, us we have referred to the children, unci menu to say a good word for them, there is no'tic to bind them to the old homestead, outside of the. warm currents of domestic love, like the fruit yard and orchard. Who does not recall among the happy memories of his childhood, if he were so highly favor ed, the old trees whoso shade was his play ground and whoso fruits wore his ((ally food, tho garden walks lined with berries, and the yines'upon the arbor and huuscsldo that grow purple in the October sun. OCT" “ Mr. I) —, if you got my coat done by next Saturday I shall be forever in debted to you." “'lt won’t bo don'e,” said tho tailor, “upon such teams.” (CT* “ What are tho wages hero ?” asked a laborer of a boy. “ I don’t know, sir. “ What, does your father got on Saturday ■night?” “ Get?” said tho boy, r “ why ho gets astight as a brick.” O* “What is tho reason that your wife and you always disagree?” asked one Irishman of anothofT “Because we are both of one mind —she wants to bo master, and so do I.” tC7“ The horse “warranted to stand with out tying,” which a man bought at a sale the other day, is now offered tu be sold with the additional guarantee, that “lie will ,not move, without whipping” THE WAR NEWS. From Missoiirj. The- Evacuation -of -Lexington by the Rebels Confirmed— Sturgis Reported to have Driven a Portion of Them Back —The Rebels Lose their Transportation Train — Gen. Sturgis at Kansas City. , St. Louis, Oct. 4. Capt. Road of the Lexington Home Guards, and afterwards of Col. White's Fourteenth Missouri Regiment, who' escaped from the rebels on Monday .last, 1 bus arrived jn tins city. , lie confirms the report .that General Price’s ivrmy bad evacuated Lexington. ■ Gen. Harris’ division, 0,000 strong, crossed tbo river last Saturday, and whdri about six miles from Lexington, .they mot a Federal force, said to" have been .under Gen. Sturgis, when a battle ensued. LittLis known ol Uie affair, other than that Harris’ force was driv en bock, with, tbo loss of bis transportation train and equipage. . - _ Gen. Harris readied the river about, mid night, closely followed by Gen. Sturgis, and immediately began to transport men across in ferry boats, under a galling lire of Federal musketry. _ . , • Many ot the rebels swam the river in tlieir impatience to got across, and they spread ex aggerated reports of Gen. Sturgis' strength throughoutdim city. One of tbo ferry boats, is reported to have sunk, and a largo number .of rebels arc said to h ivo boon killed or wounded. On. Sunday, evening. Gen. Price began to evacuate the toivn, and bis troops . were,com stantly departing, until five o’clock on Mon day evening,.when tbo last legiment left. Capt. Head board some of the rebels say they were going to Baker’s’ bill, a .command ing eminence eight miles south-west ol Lex ington, .'which they would fortify, and-make a stand there. They seemed to think that Fremont and Sigol wore apprciachihg.with' 40,000 men. . * Capt. Read says’ 'that Major- Scvioro. .tfic' refiel Provost Marshal of Lexington, told him on Friday.last that 4U,ooo,rations were issued on that (lay. ' i ■ - ■ . Gen. Sturgis had not crossed tho river up to Monday night, and nothing definite was known regarding his strength. [lateu.] St. Lours, Oct. 4. —lnformation, derive! from official sources, discloses the fact that oo Tuesday last, Gen--/Sturgis; wi h _ the,,-conn mauds of MontgonimCry and. Jennison. num bering 7,500 men were at Kansas City, keop eloso watch on Gen. Price's in .vemoiits. Death of Commissary-General Gibson Washington, Sept. 30. Commissary-General" Gibson "died hero to day. II« was ’aged about oigbty-livo years, anil long held tluvt position. Ha entered tile army in 1808 as captain of infantry from Pennsylvania. Death of a Pennifrnnian Private Aqnillia Coates, a member of the First Pennsylvania Regiment, from Chester, Delaware county, Pa., died at the camp yes terday. Secession of the Cherokee Notion. St. Louis, Oct. 1 Rev. Mr. Robinson, a missionary. toucher in the Cherokee' Nation, has arrived in this city. Ho reports that Chief John Ross Inis finally succumbed to the secession pressure. On August 20th be called his Council togeth er, at Talequab, and sent a message rocom mending the severance of their connection with the United States and an alliance with the Southern Confederacy. , , ■ . , The . Council appointed Commissioners to make a treaty of alliance with the Southern government. The Confederate Commission er assumed the payment of the annuities heretofore received by the Chorokees from our Government. The Creek Indians have raised one thou sand men for service in the Confederate army, and the Chorokees have formed a home guard 1200 strung. . Arrival oj a Discharged Prisoner from JRich ■. ■ mbnd , ■ Washing vox, October 1. A gentleman arrived here to-day'from Rich mond, via Fortress Monroe. He is a Pennsyl vanian, and was taken on t!io.22d of July at Winchester, Va.„as a spy, andconveyed to Richmond where he has heen amli.neil evm since Ho says'Messer. Magrawand llarris arc conlined there. Frequent etforts were made to procure their release, hut Without success. Finally, ho says, aeummissioh was appointed aboutthroe weeks ago by Jeff. Davis, 'com posed of J. Randolph Tucker and Wm, U. Lyon, to examine into and report to the Sec retary of. War the cases of ail persons cap-- lured ns spies, or who were found within ihcir lines without leave. The commission immediately proceeded with their labors, .and reported upon several cases. The.gentleman who arrived hero today was the. Hist whose case was acted upon. There being nothing lou'nd against him, he was discharged. Har ris and! Magi aw were , also acquitted, bin Walker, the late Secretary of War, to whom all their cases are reported, having gone om of office, and Benjamin being now the Acting Secretary of war, thoireases had not been f n il ly Beiijain.n, it is understood, refuses to actio me ease of Harris. My informant says that about nine luiii dred prisoners bud been sent to New Orleans. Mr. Fly, of New; York, bad been sent to Cas tle ’Pinckney, Gen, Jllanffield Ordered lo Fortress Monroe, Wasuikotos, Octobers. 1801. General MunshJd loft for Fortress. Monroe this ’afternoon to supersede General Wool. Capt. Drake DeKay ■ aoeimipanios 'General Mansfield, and will continue ns bis _ ind. General Wool, it is understood)’ fins ieit the Fortress. Lager Beer not Contraband. By a recent decision of a local court hero, the sale Lager Beer is not considered in viola tion of the recent act.of Congress. This, will please the soldiers, particularly the Hermans. Fiyht in Western Virginia—Jichcts Honied. Cincinnati, Thursday, Oct. 3, 1801 The Kanawha correspondence of The Com mercial of this city says that (ire companies ot the Ist Kentucky regiment, fouremnpanios of the tilth .Ohio regiment, and one Company of the sth Virginia regiment, under 'Lieut. 001. Enyart, surrn.inded and gttackod the Rebels at Chapmansvillo, and alter a short engagement completely routed them, killing (10, and taking 70 prisoners. The Rebels in escaping were intercepted by'Col. Hiatt, who killed 40, and took a largo number of prison ers. The country between Charleston and Wyan dotto River is how freed from Secession pow er. This is the mt st effective blow given the Rebels in this part of the valley. When the Kanawha loft Charleston, there was a report of a battle going on between Generals Cox and Floyd and Wise, at Sew ell's Mountain, and that the Rebels wore get ting the worst of it, and falling back upon their intrenchmonts at Lewisburg. Release of Henry S-Magraw. Among the passengers by the steamer Louisiana, from Fortress Monroe, was the Hon. Henry S. Magraw, of Pennsylvania, who wbnt in searclr of the body of Colonel Cameron after the Roll Run Radio, and was.captured and taken to Uiolnnond. lit iofiks carewu h, and declines to make any disclosures as to the rebel movements at Richmond. lie was released on' Monday and’ reached Fortress Monroe, via Norfolk, lid goes to Washington to-night. The! fate of the,mutinous prisoners con demned by Gen. McClellan to hard labor at Tortugas, has boon generously mitigated upon ■their arrival at tbo Rip Raps, Gen. Wool bad them drawn up in lino, and addressed them on the serious dereliction of duty fop which they had been condemned. Ho stated that Ocn. McClellan would have been justified in shooting them for. mutiny, in face of tho enemy, but bo had a merciful proposition to make to tbc.u. If they would place them selves in his hands, all those who wore, wil ling might stop forward three paces. Those who were not content to do so, would bo sent to Tortugas, to expiate, their crime. Too en tire number, ■l5O, at once stepped forward with shouts and some with tears of joy. They wire then taken toNcwport Nowsand drafted into a New York Regiment., The Administration has dealt with Goner-, al.Fremont with remarkable leniency—even affectionate partiality, in. giving him - the op portunity of retrieving the disasters that have: overtaken the Union arms in Miss..uri, through' his management. , The experiment is certain ly' a hazardous one—but tho Administration: must bo responsible for the result. ■ If Gem. Fremont, fails to defeat the rebel army under Price, the country will hold the Administra tion'responsible for not supplanting him after bis inefficiency was abundantly demonstrated.. Wo nil remember bow swift a certain class of men were to -cdudcnln Gen. Patterson, ami even ; denounce him as a traitor,because ho. failed to perform impossibilities ; and that the Administration never thought of giving him. .an opportunity of potricyiiigliisdamaged repu tation. To ,tbis day tho. Administration.has not had the courage to condemn Gen. Patter son, if they disapprbvod id',his proceedings, or the magnaniniily to commend him if they ap 'proved of his movements on the Potomac, lie. is abandoned' in silencd to encounter the'ma lignant thrusts of bis enemies, who seize every occasion to disparage him in public esti mation. Had General Patterson, neglected to lie what- Fremont has neglected—had he lost -Missouri—permitted, Lyon .to fall and Mulligan to bo captured, would behave been treated with so niiieli eiaisi, deration, and afforded an opportunity of retrieving his repu tation at the risk ol the loss.of a Slate like ..Missouri ! So; blscnpniies 'would have been sa'isliud with nothing less than his head. I,'hpv would have exclaimed, again-1 experi ment! ig-with a"General who had. shown h's incapacity, and branded him witlidho cpithit of Traitor to his Country, Fair, play is a jewel. It is a poor rule th. t won’t work both ways. The friends of Gen. -Frtnno'nt resort to arguments in his behalf that would of themselves be enough'to discred it and displace any other General. Wo are told that “ the. feeling among the rank and file'is. that his .removal would bo tantamount to diabanding'the army in .Missouri.”. This is a threat to intimidate the Administration, which is told that if they dare to lay a finger upon general Fremont'the army under his c minnind will revolt, We have a higher es timate of the loyalty of the army to believe any such slanderous imputation. . It,will bo a sad day for the country when tho^ army is permitted to.dictate to the Administration, and control its policy by threats,of insurrec tion and if it could lie proved tbatFrcmont was privy to tiny such intimation, this evidence of insubordination would bo, enough to demand bis instant removal. Rut suppose that the army under (ien. 'Patterson'had used threats such as these—would ho have been held guiltless ?■ The General who permits his friends to wield such weapons in. his defence, and the friends who dare to. n-p'the in com in it nets of i isubor inatinn demanding the most summir-y and rigorous treatments —Harrisburg Union. At a great Union mooting at HilyesvillO; Chester county,'Pit., the follnwiugletter from. ox-lA'Osidont Bueluuiau was.read : ■\VuEvm.A.vf, hear Lancaster, Pa., Sept.lB. Dkaii Snt: I have been honoredby your kind invitation its Cmiirmnn of .the appropri ate emumitlc, to attend and addr ss « Uipon meotieg of tfio Citizens of Chester and tai.- caster counties, to be held at Hayesville on the Istof October, This I should gladly ac cept, proceeding as it docs Ihim a much val ued portion of my’ old 'Congressional District, hat advancing years hud the present state of my health render it impossible. You 'correctly estimate the deep interest which I feel;, in common wiih the citizens who will there bo assembled,.inutile present condition of our country. This is indeed se rious; biit bur recent military reverses, so far’from producing despondency in the minds of a loyal and powerful people, will only ani mate tl.iem to more mighty exertions in sus taining a war which bus become inevitable, ■’,,y tnu assault of the Confederate States upon Fort Sumpter- For this reason, were it possible for mo to address you, waiving till other topics, I should eonliue ’myself to a solemn and earnest appeal to my countrymen, anil especially those without iamilles, to volunteer for tire war, in id ■ join the many thousands of brave and patriotic volunteers who arc already in the held. This Is Ihomoinoot for.action; for pmnipt, encrgelia and united action; and.notjor the discussion of peace propositions. These, wo must know, would he rejected ,by the StaUs that have seceded, unless wo should otter to recognize theirindepondeuco, which is entire ly mil bl the question. Better councils may hereafter prevail, when those people.'shall bo convinced that the war is conducted, not fur'their conquest or subju gation, but solely for the purpose of bringing” Litem back to their original posiHcn , lr V , B Union, without impairing in the slightest de gree any of llieir constitutional rights. - Whilst, therefore, we shall cordially l in 1 ilicu’ return tinder oar common and gi dag and welcome them ns brothers, J > Ul im li*i« ,n *• S ,«i 2E .. u-y; in a vigorous am-l success, nl pro of the war. CAME to tho premises oif the subscriber in Dickinson township, on or about tho Other ——September, a red Steer with n few white * spots, supposed to he about 18 months or idTih?— o yours ■ old. Tho owner, is requested to oome forward, prove property, pay charges, and take him away, otherwise ho will ho disposed of as tho law directs. Oct 10. 1801—3 t» On the 3d inst., by the llbv. J. Ulrich, Mr. Samuei, Stine to Miss Martha RunKUOhDEU, both of this county. , , , On the 3d insf., in tho Firjt Presbyterian Church, at Harrisburg, by the Rev. Hr. Witt, Mr. Geoiige Edward Stebby, ot .oity-of.-Now_York r to-Miss-KAiE-JLCJ.A.tS. 1 -, De Witt, of'tho former nlaco. LUj;TIMOIIE,_Qct.A. At bis residence in Harrisburg, on p* 1 ,. last, Robert J. Ross, Esq., Cashier of lb phin Deposit Bank. ..Baltimore, Thursday, Oct. 3. The Mutineers at Tortugas Released , Fremont nnd Patterson, Ex President Daeliannn on the War. "Wcist Chester, Pa., Oct. 4. - - Yours, very respectfully, (Signed) James.Rdoiianan stray Steer. GEORGE SWONGER. ffiarwb. lieb.
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