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TVhn— HohUx th'c Jitlio, Come yo who would have Turn out fur M’Clellan, the Vrivtf, The hero, tho pride of tho nation, Who our country from ruin can save, While fighting fur freedom nnd glory, And much hy his soldiers beloved, The Jealous still called nim a tory, Aud said ho uiust.be now removed. our country defended, Abd Well might hor sous have relief, And th’i 'tnrfnoil aud carnage bo ended, Had tboy left btm Cuinmaudor-iu-chicf. A hero of high estimation, Long, long, bravo M’CdcUan has been, 'Ho soon at the head of tho nation Shall in honor and glory bo seen. For bin* wo will hold u convention, And by thousands be marching along, •Rejoicing in nigger declension, And unite in loud cheering and song. The Star Spangled Banner in splendor O'er patriots proudly ahull wave, While Republicans calmly surrender, To -Ppl’Clclluii, thu'butiost and bravo. Thus gathered from mountain ami valley, From the hills and the plkins all around. For M'Ulelhin our freemen shall rally, And tho echoes of music resound. ■ Away with all wild abdltion, That caused every buttle wo fought, That changed oilr country’s condition, Made debt and taxation tor naught. Ilnw long must our money be squandered? How long must our nation yet bleed? Ye Uodsl'Ub! bow much 1 hare wondered lllow long wo must culler, indeni. Sro tho sn<l-liearfoil mothers, Now mourning the Inns iff their .sons, Tho hcnrt'hrokon sire* ami brothers, Maiio sad since the war first begun HcpulilirnnLsm must vanish, Ami peace restored as it should bo ; Tho traitors from off\eo he banished. Now oppressing the hravu and the fretr. Olj, fc change ! may it soon bo effected Kru tyrants ahull doom us bo slaves I If Lincoln again be elected-, Then freedom will sink to its grave Etollawaiijs. OS WJFU CIUJOSIMh The carelessness with which some men thuusc their wives is wonder!ui to me ; they eeem tu bestow more trouble and pains upon the choise of a coat. One or two instances winch have lately come to my notice will ac count lor tho charge i have brought against the lords of creation ; but only some ol them fur others finding no one good enough, end by retiming old bachelors; and ills be*i they Mumki, Ibr men p( that sort would have wor ried angels, bail they happened io marry them. Then there’s voting Bahnuync ; I am e>ui‘e I never thought lie would have done so well ns lie has, aftcr'llmf imprudent,' hurrred mar huge ot his, ami then be h^V 1 * to'so much. — But it’s all right nuts’, add I’ll tell you how it earn* to pass; Vou'ihust know Bnlmaync hadn’t much to do la’st winter in town when ho was up with his lather, who was ill ol the gout; so he used tw spend a good deal of his time looking out f il the dining-room window; and as his lath er hua one of those houses in Piccadilly not far from Mr. Bereslbrd's, of course ho saw a good many people go by in ot tho day. One morning it rained very hard—rquitd A pelt; and as ho was at his post, ho saw a pret ty girl run across 'the road from tho park straight to the shelter of tho porch, which was over tbo.tbo Iront of his father’s door. Sho W no uraborella; so* of course ; Balmayoo's first impulse was to lend hor ones Ho put JQ his hat and coat just as if ho was golhg for a walk himself, and opened tho door. She really was very pretty, and very wet. She wouldn’t como in to bo dried, for sho 4as ,n a hurry to be at home;,so, as the offered pfcbvella was a heavy one, Balmayne carried fur her himself. She was a girl of a good family, but very poor —that evil worse than BII L iu the eyes of some people. However/to along story short, Bulmayoe married her before the season was over; and more , Jhan that, be told his father that such was bis toientiotii This brought on another fit of tho S°ut; and tho old gentlemen vowed’and do clared that ho would never see her ; and so patters were in this fix till it. was time to g oj duvvu for the 12th ; and as the moors were in c apital order, and a large party coming to the ° w goullomau’s. Highland box, Balmayne mi) H come with him; and leave, his beautiful young wife behind. This grieved him sadly ; hst at last a bright idea occurred to him, ho carried out, os wo shall relate ;• fur a 1 these are true stories. the Kuston Square railway station, when ‘diuuyue arrived with his father/there was a rush lur seats, that they had aumodit unity in finding one; and as tu a carriage u diems elves, that was out of the question ; all* secured asumpartmeut which, as we I contains only four. One lady was l ®Udy in- this; but with tho old gcntleman’s n ato politeness; he would nut hear of her though as his'gouty foot was obliged , 1 o .placed on 'the opposite seat, there was »ru JUBt room for tl S om » • An® lady « a t by the old gentleman, and-tho eon opposite to her. The lady was very prot-. ty, and seemed so sorry and sympathizing whenever a twmgo of tho gout forced a strong expression from tho old gentleman, that at last ho began to take some notice of her, and to talk to- her. Balmayno, absorbed in his n'owspn per, left them entirely to themselves; and before they had reached York, they were quite good friends. It so happened that,the young lady, too, was going tospend tho night at York; and ns she was quite alone, the old gentletaen told her she had better come to the same hotel that they did, and his ser vant should look afterher’thicgs, for evident ly Balmaynedid not intend fa take the smal lest notice of her; 'findseeing his son's want of proper politeness, perhaps made tho good old gentleman all tho ftioro attentive. -Next iqonii’ng tboy Again set Cut on their northern jobrney, and all together as before, for the lady seemed dpiito to belong to them now. liavin'g 'ascertained that she was going down to n place within a, few miles of his own shooting box, the old man promised ho would ado her safe to the end of her journey, which was rather a longono, as she traveled slowly, being in delicate health ; and owing to his gout, the old gentleman did the same; so as it turned out, they remained together tho whole day. When they got to the last sta tion, before leaving the rail-way for country roads, tho two gentlemen got out, the father lady to remain where she was in 'lli'6 waiting room till he found her a car riage, and had her luggage priton to it. Sho obeyed with a Very siVeet smile, but looked uncommonly nervous. Balmayno also look ed nervous, which was odd. Ho folllowed his father, who was looking fora fly. for his pret ty protege. “ Upon my word, as nice a girl as ever 1 met,” said the old gentleman. Re ally I'm quite sorry to lose sight of her.— How sho would enliven us.at tho moors, wouldn’t she Balmayno? But Balmaynrt was as white as a sheet, and could hardly apeak. At last, however, he did say: “You needn’t lose her unless you like, father. ; ' *• How now, young gentl'emen, wlmt do you mean?” said his father, bristling up. • “I menu that she’s my wife!" gasped out tho unfortunate ftalmayite. “ By Jove !" said the old gentlman, turn ing as purple as a turkey-cock ; ” who would have thought it? You impudent*s*c' r, ng ras cal." • For some momenta it seemed doubtful whether anger at being taken in, or the real pleasure at his son's nrikfToWii wife being ho much butter than he expected, would gain the mastery ; »t last, however, his natural good humor triumphed, and his son led him back to'llii!'little waiting room', where was the ■poor young wife, more dead than alive with (right, nut knowing how her husband’s ruse would succeed. Nothing could be better. The old gentle man embraced her with real paternal affec tion ; and one carriage took them all to his shootin hox ; and {'non that day to this, the good lather has necer ceased to Me.-s the day when ld« son gave him such a daughter, in law.— C/aunbiu.'i’ Journal. I.v A r I)lVINO Appar \TUS. —An in ,pit** WrtS licit! «»u huartl her Majesty’s ship M. (Sc'iirgo, at Falmouth, on Saturday aftor ii.uni. mi the body of Samuel Warren,.aged ’J I. a MMiilaii and diver belonging to that ship who was suffocated on Friday afternoon while diving in Falmouth harbor. Tho deceased had previously been a diver on board her Majesty's ship Cam bridge. He wont down (Voin a boat between two and three o’clock on Friday afternoon in thirteen fathoms Of wa ter, at the spot WhorO the st-. Gourde ih lying, for live purpose of recovering X pet of boat's crutches that had been lost from the St. George Ho selected his own attendants fur the occa sion from the ship's company, and arranged with them the signals, which were lobe *• one pull loss air/’ “two polls more air,”*** throe pulls to cmno up.” About a half a minute alter ho was d i\vn he signalled foV more air, amt more was pumped down. Warren then walked about one fathom and a half, there beingabout fifteen fathoms and a halfair pipe out, when he signalled to come Up. The pul ling up 1 was inimi diatoly commenced. lie hud been about four minutes down, and the boat’s crew were about two minutes in pul ling him up. The mouthpiece of the dress was taken off before he was taken into the boat, and he put his right ham) across his mouth. The diving dress was immediately taken off. and Warren was carried on board the Sr. George: his face, ears, no-trils, and helmet were covered with blond. He ilid not twea’k, but gave a convulsive struggle, and died Just before he was got on hoard. The diving dress was a new one, which the deceas ed hud borrowed from tho Falmouth Hock Company. It was found en examination that the air pipe had burst about nine fathoms from tl-e helmet, and that the valve for tho outlet of of the foul air was fastened. . This had occasioned an extra pressure on the tube ahd hence the accident. Means were resor ted to for more than an hour to restore, tho deceased, but without any. apparent The jury returned a Th'ilt d^ch'aed was suffocated by over pressure of air while diving, in consequence of the escape valve of the diving apparatus being act, and that no blame attached to any one except the deceas ed himself.” —Western Morning News. A Call on General Cass. —Mr. Cassidy writes to the' Albany Ath&and Argus of the passage of the faew York delegation through Detroit, and thus alludes to a call upon Gen eral Cass i Our arrival at Detroit afforded thd occa sion for a visit to Gen. Cass. Govs. Sey mour and Hunt, Judge Parker, Kornan, and about twenty others, called at his house— Feeble in body, the ago v d statesman seemed to bo clear in intellect and hopetul in spirit.— He realized to the fullest the calamities that had befallen the country; and yet ho had faith In the future. Ho had seen so much accomplished by the patriotism and energy of thtfphoplp, that ho felt there was nothing impossible |n the future. His reminisenoes were instructive. His first residence in Detroit was 54 years ago, its a military officer. He has sailed with Indian guides,-in' a bark'canoe along the site of Chicago, when its inhabitants were but a single family. Ho had hold councils, made treaties, and fought battles with the Indians all throughout the region of4ho Northwest, now thronged with populations and the seat of prosperous cities. He whs born before the acknowledgement of our Independence; he saw the Union formed and the Constitution made; he has lived to see both destroyed by fanaticism and force. May he live U see them restored again, and close his pntriotio career f mid the regrets of a united people. ijcgr* Slavers buy negroes in Africa to put to useful employment in the South. Lincoln's agents steal negroes in the South to slaugh ter in a war upon- freedom.' is tho worse ? "OUR COUNTRY—MAY IT ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT RIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.” CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER i% 1864. One of the gravest accusations against the Administration of Mr, Lincoln, is the heart less brutality displayed by himself and his Secretary of War in the matter ortho ex change of prisoners. For months back the Abolition papers of the North have been crowded with loathsome stories about the sickness and starvation, the suffering from gold, wounds -find hunger, 'endured by the Federal soldiers now captives in the South. It has been alleged, a thousand tidies over, that these/Unfortunate men are, dying by scores every'day,‘of disease induced directly by exposure and insufficient food. The pic torial newspapers Jook‘up the tale, and pub lished ghastly views 'representing tottering 1 and ragged prisoners,‘imaciatod to the last degree, standing exposed to a bleak rain guarded by corpulent Coniederates in fash ionably-cut uniforms, and ‘cotnforUibly pro tected from the blasts. The adage that “ liars ought to have good memories” held particularly good in this case, for the Har pers and other caterers to the popular taste, who projected these pictures, in the very is sues of their papers which contained them, described the people of the South as almost worn out with starvation—ready to give up —entirely nnab'le to maintain vitality, much less carry on war Upon bacon-skins and half rations of bad flour. But the apoplectic guards posted by the imaginative artists of Harper over the skeletons of Federal prison ers, gave the lie to the tales of the crafty cd« itor wheh‘ho‘described the exhaustion of the rebel army. Out of this discrepancy arose ft sorry dilemma. If the “ robs" hud nothing to eat. themselves, as. the editor avouched, they certainly, could not be expected to fatten prisoners on roast beef and ale. On the con trary, if they were ns. fat and sleek as depic ted by the pencils of The llarperiau artists, the prospect of epoctly exhaustion must be given up, and the hopes of the North direc ted to a general extinction of the traitors by plethora, gout and oily fevers. Meantime, while the “ loyal” papers were vigorously lying on the subject of rebel bar . barities and the sufferings of the captives, ! contradicting themselves us well as one an other, the unfortunate prisoners were lan guishing in Southern camps, dyingof Weari ness, home-sickuoss aud impatience, even where disease spared them 1 and food was plenty. Congress, Jo Which L thousands of. | them'anxiously looked for some measure of i relief, after long study, concluded that it ■ would be a good political move to leave them where they were, and t 6 toanaftictare party ■. capital .at the North by publishing a well colored story of their sufferings. This view ' of the case was entirely acceptable to Messrs. ■ Lincoln and Stanton ; and a book, written in ; the Sylvanus Cu)jb style, and embellished' with KuPdry pictures of sick men and skele tons, was issued, nominally by a Committee of Congress, while it was actually manufac tured in t.O War Department. There was j some ingenuity shown in the coustri’-ethui of this work, though it was of that fiendish kind which deftly barbs pobonel arrows. A num ber of patients were selected from the hospi tal at anapolis, worn out with typhoid fevers and other wasting maladies, to winch wo arc all liable oven amid the comforts of home, and which will make shadows of the fattest men in the midst of plenty. These unhappy invalids were cruelly stripped by the Yankee , surgeons and their attendants, were propped up in altitudes the most uncomfortable that can be conceived, had the cold nippers of the daguerreotypist fitted to their wasted necks, ; instead of *the pillows that pity would have placed there; and while they groaned and writhed with suffering, gasping alfnost With their last breath to be laid down again', were photographed for the Congressional picture book. Anybody who will look at the engra vings in the report we have reierred to, will need no proof of the inhumanity of the wretches who got them up. Savages torture their victiih us he dies at the stake. It re mained for the Abolitionists not only to tor ture their miserable Victiih, but to photo graph his last of wiping uway th*o deitli damp, to catch it in the cam era--iiiBtead of smoothing his dying pillow, to shako it IVofn under his head—and all that a campttigu document might be made picto rial and spicy. This book, pictures ah'd all, has had an immense circulation. It i h heedless to say that anybody curious in such matters no find in any village in Pennsylvania, if he will visit its sick rooms, sufferers nbrs'cd With the tenderness Affection, who present a spectacle as ghostly ‘and ’emaciated as, those selected for the official pictorial from among the re turned prisoners at Anapolis. Hat, our word for it, ho will not find in all Pennsylvania anybody, except an Abolitionist, brutal enough td intrude the camera and the chemi cals into the chamber of death; base enough to forge political falsehoods out of the last sufferings of a stricken brother. But this notable book, conceived in the War Department and fathered by .Congress, had but a limited and temporary success.— It served for a while to furnish ignorant and blatant Abolitionists with a Subject of con versation,, and added immensely to their zeal against ‘‘ Copperheads,” who strange to say, were clamoring most earnestly for the ex change and release of all our prisoners*, while these very Abolitionists were quite satisfied with thh pictures of a few invalids already returned. The Exchange of Prisoners. Soon, however, tli'e public canto to Ufiddtv Blind that tho Administration had raised tllb same obstacle to the exchange and release of our prisoners that it had already set Up to the restoration of the Union and tli’e return of peio’e— to wit, the negri. The whole truth at last oarab out and proved to ho this: Aniong the tens of thousands of prisoners captlired by the Confederate armies were a few hundred negroes, who had Wen kid napped front the plantations on which they were born; and boughtas substitutes by New England Yankees, who, everybody knows, have no stomach for fighting, except by proxy. The authorities of the Confederate Government alleged thdt indsnldoli tls ry was a lawful existing institution in the States which they represented, they were bound to return negro slaves, captured in battle, to thoir masters, precisely as they would be bound to return any other species of property, reclaimed by the fortune of war, to Us prdper owner. Acting Upml this doc trine, (whether it is a valid oue or tlot; it to immaterial to odr present purpose to decide) thev refused to acknowledge hegroes as pris oners of war, or to exchange them for white captives (root their own army hold in the North. But their camps of confinement and prisons swarmed with white veterans to the number of more than fifty thousand—many of them men who had been captured in the battles of last year, and all of them looking for an exchange with a longing and heart sickness which a humane Government would not have suffered to eudurti amomontbeyond the tiino necessary to the most speedy nego tiations for thoir release. The Confederates were not only willing but • very anxious to exchange these men, and pressed the subject upon the Administration at Washington many times and ‘ with great earnestness. They said, and most justly too: “ Suppose wo dq refuse to exchange negroes.as prisoners of war—the negroes are not one-tenth or twen tieth ot the prisoners \vc hold —wo will ex change white man for white man until all of your soldiers vh our prisons are sent home to yon, and all of ours in your prisons are given back to us. Should it turn out that you hold tTsurplus of our men wo will not ask you to take negroes for them,-and ahohld you ask us to 'give you negroes for therii, it will then bo time enough to settle the status of black captives, because it can be done without prolonging the sufferings of white ones. Let us postpone the negro until the white man is given hack to his home, his friends, his family aud his brothers id arms.” This is a fair statement of the propositiono repeatedly made by the Confederate author ities, and as often flatly rejected by ours. There were three reasons for these multi -plied' refusals to cxchage,' which, although in the view of humanity, they are not only idle,zb'ut heartless and barbarous, were amply sufficient to make Mr. Lincoln and his Secre tary of War firm in their purpose to let our white soldiers languish, rot and die in the 1 prisons of the South. The first we have al ready suggested. It was the desire to make political capital out of- the alleged suffering of the prisoners—lt being deemed more Im portant to strengthen the forces of the Abo litionists than to fill up the ranks of the ar my. Second. The term of service of many of our veterans, who were prisoners, having ex pired, they had no military value in the eyes of the Administration; and it was feared that 'if. they were brought home, bisgust at their long neglect and manifold wrongs would make them join the party that had steadily demanded their exchang'/ and Vote the Democratic ticket. Hence their wives and babes, it was resolved by Stanton, should cry and starve, until the political fortunes of the Administration could no longer be affec ted by giving their husbands and fathers back to them. Third. It was resolved to gratify the radi cal Abolitionists by sotting the negro above the white man, and making the exchange and release of the last black preliminary to thd* liberation of the first white. *- - ■/■influenced' by ' these cogent reasons, the Administration selected the fittest agent to carry out its policy that could have been found in all the North. The cultivated brutality uf General* B. F. Butler rendered him pre cisely the person to carry on negotiations se cretly intended to protract the bufferings which it was their open object to cut short —to sacrifice the hopes of the thousands of bravo white men worn out with 'confinement and longing for home, to the quibhlea’of A Yankee pettifogger about the statiis of the negro, Butler ha* done Ids work well. Ho never stripped, Hugged or imprisoned a rebel lady, or ducked the tidl of b. Norfolk dog with more dexterity thru ho has shown in raising insurmnuntiiblo objections to the restoration of our prisoners, followed by cool reproach es on the rebels for keening thorn. His let ter to Judge Ould, the llobcl Commissioner ol Exchange, recently published, is a piece with all the rest of .Ids correspondence on the sub ject of exchange. It is manifest that if our prisoners in the South are to get their freedom they must cither fight their way out or got away by stealth. T/tia Administration will do nothing Jar Ihciit unless they happen io be black. Lot the Impa tient hearts uf wife, sister and mother take comfort in the blessed assurance that at some far future'day, when the very last negro has gained his liberty, and been greeted by the Abolitionists with a public reception, negoti ation looking towards a rescue of those after whom they yearn may he opened with some design uf making them effectual —bid not till then.—Age Light for Animals. — Wo are often im pressed with the gross neglect of otherwise intelligent men, in not securing abundant Tight for animal life. To thean-imal and the plant alike, and to each and every human be ing light, asw’ell as warmth; is absolutely in dispensable. Put A plant in the cellar and it will grow up colorless, flexible, healthless. Put it in a dark plac'c and yet give it air, and it will hardly do better. Yet, people will at tempt to bring up animals imprisoned and housed. In sonic public remarks we had oc casion to make, wc stated that a pig would not grow if deprived of light. We soon af ter met and old gentleman, and he had lived sixty years without diocokering the fact, aud the first words he Addressed to us wore: “ Well, you told nlo why my pigs would not grow. Two years ago 1 put in a snug place under my barn, six pigs. It was warm but dark, and they were fed through the floor.— In the spring I took them out and they look ed like rats. They hadn’t grown a pound.” A. fanner of our acquaintance was, some time since, driving a line mare. ‘Wo asked how she became blind. He told us that he put her and two other three-year old horses into a perfectly dark stable in the fall, and in the spring, anon after they cattle to light, they went stone blind. these illustrations show, conclusively, that light is necessary to every living And growing thing. Our barns are not light enough. Our houses, too many of theni, are too destitute of light. I-arcnto pursue a blind And be nighted course when they encourage their children in living housed and imprisoned, when they encourage them in enveloping their faces under impenetrable veils, lest their che.cTts should blister. You cannot blister the cheek of a cherry or of a poach.— Better remember that the ruddy of priceless health, and the life and animation that radiate beauty, can never exist in per fection unless in filll tind free exposure to dir and silnliglit. “ Russian Scandap.“—A favorite-. play with Dr. Whately was pencilling it little tale on paper, and,then making his right hand neighbor read and repeat it; id a whisper, to the next man, and so on until everybody round the table had done the sartio. _ But the last man was always required to write what he had heard; artd the matter was'then com pared v\ith the original, retained by his grace. In riiony instances the matter was litil'dly fecognizahlo, and Dr. Whately would dratk an obvious moral; but tho cream of the fun lay in his efforts to discover where the alterations took placo. Ills analytical pow ers of detection proved, as usuol, accurate, and the interpolators wero playfully pilloried. The play is called " Russian SeandalP% ICT-Stanton telegraphs that “the taking of Richmond is only a matter of iiuie, 1 * It looks like ono of eternity. O” Johnson, the Republican nominee for Vice-President, is not a citizen of tbo United States, not can he vote, according to a lute aot of Congress. THE MODE IX WHICH SOLDIERS SHALL VOTE. Tho following is an abstractor tho bill pro scribing tho manner in winch the soldiers shall vote : Section first provides that whenever any of the qualified doctors of this Coimuoa •wealth shall bo in actual military service under a requisition from the President or Governor, and consequently absent on tho day of holding general, BpecihJ op presiden tial'cloctiofia, they Shall betfOntitled to exer cise the right of suffrage as tally as if they were present at their proper places of voting, and the Tight 6f such voter is not to bo im paired by reason of his being credited for bounty irt ahy other locality than his actual residence. Sec. 2. A poll is to bo opened in each com ply, composed in whole or part of Penn sylvania soldiers, at the quarters of the cap tain or other officer, and all electors of .said company who shall be within ofio mile of such quarters on the day of election, and not bo prevented from returning by the proxim- Uv of the enemy or orders of conimanders, shall vote at such heMqnartcra, And no other place. . Officers other than those of a com pany, tho other voters detached and absent from their companies, or in any military and naval hospital, or in any vessel or navy yard may vote at such othpr polls as are most con venient to them.' When, there are ten or iftoTo electors unable to attend at tho compa ny polls or proper places of election they may open a poll at such placO ts they may select. Sec. 3. The polls are not to bo opened be fore 7 o’clock, and must ho kept open three hours, or, if deemed necessary in order to re ceive all the votes, until seven, o'clock in the everting. Sec. 4 Before opening the polls tho elec tors present shall elect, aim voce, three per sons far judges, aud the judges shall appoint two clerks, and prepare boxes for the bal i lofa. Src, 5. Before receiving any votes the jhdges and clerks shall bo sworn to observe the law and guard against fraud and deceit, Knd this oath must be entered on Iho poll book and signed by the Judges and clerks. Sec. C. All voting shall bo by ballot and the applicant to vote, if challanged, itiilst be examined under oath by the judges as to his right to vote in the precinct in which he <>lrtims-resjdenc<h-7v; - " - Sgg. 7. Separate poll-books shall be kept, and separate returns made, for the votes of sauh city or county. The poll-books shall na v mo the company and regiment, and post, place or hospital in which the election is held. The county bnd township, city, bor ough, Ward, precinct, or election district of. each voter, shall be endorsed opposite his name on the poll-books, of which each clerk shall keep One. Sec. 8. The tickets shall have lftem the names of all the officers for whoul the el ector desires to vote. , . Sec. 9. On receiving the ticket the judges must prondunce audibly the name of the el ector presenting it, and if satisfied of the right of the elector to Vote', arid be is not challenged, shall deposit the ballot in the proper box. while the clerks register, th 2 name and legal ’residence of the voter in their poll-books. Sec. 10. At the close of the polls the num ber of voters must bo counted, set down, and certified at the foot of the poll-books. Sec. 11. After the poll-books are-signed the ballots are to bo counted, each judge reading the nmiles thereon, and the third stringing the vote of each coiinty on ; a sepa rate string, and carefully preserving the same. Sim. I‘2. Where two tickets are folded to gether, both arc to bo thrown out, and where two hallo s are voted together for the same office, neither is to be counted for that office. Sec. 13. Rich clerk shall keep, m addi tion to the poll-book, a list of the totera for each county, which shall constitute part of the poll-hook. Sec. 14. The rinnlber of voters on these county poll lists must also bo set down and certified. Secs. 13 and 1G proscribe the form of poll book, and tho manner of entering the re turns. Sec. 17. After canvassing the votes, tho judges will seal up and tho poll book lists, and ballots to tho Prutlioiiotary of the proper comity, and secure tho other poll- Imnk and lists, to be called for by tho 'Com missioner appointed under the act. It not called for within ten days, the second book, Ac., are to be sent to the Secretary of tho Commonwealth. . Sec. 18. 'tho Prothonotary niust furnish the Return Judges with a certified copy of returns so received Secs. 19 hnd 20. The return Judges are to moot on the Second Tuesday of November to count and outer tho vote of soldiers thus re turned. Sec. 21. In Presidential elections, all re turns received by the Secretary of the Com monwealth are to be compared with the'comi ty returns, lor tho oorroetidu of the latter. Sec. 22. All elections are to bo subject to contest as.uadnr present laws. Sec. 23. The Secretary of the Commonwealth is required to provide a sufficient luuiiber of copies of this law, together with extract? ft-om the gcdenil election laws, blank dorms of poll-books, tally lists, and returns, postage stamps, eto., and forward the same by com missioners, nr othewise, to tho commanding officers of companies detached posts and bos-” pitals, who shall deliver the same to the elec tion judges on tho day of election, biit no elec tion is to bo' invalidated by reason of such blanks not being received. Secs. 24. 23,2 G, 27. The Coventor is to ap point such commissioners, no exceeding due to each Pennsylvania regiment in service, iis shall bo necessary to carry out the law.— Said comniissidners are to be sworn to fulfil their duties, under penalty of $l,OOO or im prisonment, for one year. They are to deliv er four copies of the laws, and at least two £ots of blanks, to tlie comanding officer of ©ve ry company and part of company; provide for opening polls, and call for one oopyof the poll-book after the election. They are to bo paid ten cents per niilo for traveling to aad from their respective regiments, and may vote at one of tho company polls. No failure of commissioners to visit regintanta shall inval idate any election under the act. Secs. 28, 29. The officers authorised to con duct elections are to bo subject .to the usual penalties for the non-fulfillment of duties. They are to receive no compensation. Sec. 30. When the Sheriff issues bis proc lamation for an election, he shall transmit immediately copies of the same to tho troops : iu the field from the county. See.-31. $13,000 is appropriated to carry the law into effect. Sees. 32, 33. Where leas than ten qualified electors are members of oorapianios, or where from any oilier sufficient and legal cause qualified electors are Separated from their proper companies, or shall bo la any hospital, MEM navy yard, vessel, or on recruiting, provost; or other duty they may vote as follows; Cash voter is authorized, before the day of tba e lection, to place his ballot properly folded in a sealed envelope, together with a stated ment signed by the voter and his command* ing officer, or some other witness, and duly sworn to and certified before qaid officer or some other competent person. This gtat** ment must sot forth the following facts: The name and pr oper I'esi'dencb of the rotor An authority to some qualified voter at the place of his resid encc, to cast tho ballot for him. ThKt ho is a qualified voter in tho proainot whore he proposes to Vpto. , That he is is in. the active military service, and give tho name of the organization of which he. is a member. That lie has not sent his ballot to Any oth er person than the one so authorized. f That ho will not attempt to vote at any polls opened on s6ld election day, at any plao# whatsoever. That ho has not been'dishonorably dismiss.* od from 4he service. Said sealed envelope, ballets and statement! are to be sent by mail, or otherwise, to tbs proper person, with the endorsement on the sealed partthorof, “ Soldier’s ballot'for—— township, (ward or borough,) in the county of—,” &c. Secs. 34, 35, 30, 37. The elector to whom this ballot is sent shall deliver it unopened, on the day of the election, at the proper polls. The election officers shall open it in the cncc of the board, and deposit the ballots and accompanying papers, as ether ballots Are de posited. The person delivering the ballot shall be compelled to testify on oath that he has delivered it in the same state as when re cGoeiced, and that ho has not opened or chan ged or altered the content;]. Without such oath the vote shall'rot be received. The righ t to vote of the person sending the'ballot may lie challenged the fiamo as if he was person ally present. Any 'election officer refusing to receive and count such vote, excepting when fraudulent, and any elector to whom such ballot ia sent refusing to present it at the proper poll, are punishable by $5OO fine and one year's imprisonment. Any person nlaking false okth touching those matters it subject to a penalty of $-1,000 fine and firs year’s imprisonment. Sec. 38. The. Secretary of State shall pre pare and furnish, the accessary blanks to ry out this act. Sec. 39. In case of an elector in military service on a vessel, the master of said Tonal shall be competent to take affidavit and writ ten sHtethtit 6f said erector'. Sec. 40. Assessors are required to assess tk county tax of tenc.entson every non-commis sioned officer and private, and the usual tax bn every commissioned officer, known by them to lie in the military service of the United States or of th* Stcvto, In. the army or aavy, and when names shall have been omitted they mugt bo added on application of any resident of the district. , Non-commissioned officer* and privates are to be exempt from all other personal taxes while in the service. Asset sors must receive this tax from, and furnish a certificate of payment to any citizen offer ing to pay the same for said soldier. Where the name has been ‘entered on the assessment books no certificate. of assessments shall bt required. The certificate of paympnt shall set forth the name cf the persons for whom the tax is paid, th 6 date of’payment, and year for Which it is assessed. This certificate shall bo evidence of payment '6f taxes, and shall preclude a demand for other evidence of a right to vote. The penalty for non compli ance bn the pirt Of the assessors, collectors, or treasurers sbaAl' net - be less than $2O, n more than $2OO. Cigy- A boat supposed to be seven hundred years old was found during the working of some of the convicts for the enlargement of the dock-yard at Chatham, whilst digging about eighteen inches below the surface of tlie soil, tt was about twelve sect in length, and from the nature of the build, it is suppo sed to have been there seven hundred years. It is roughly made. A keel runs from head to stern. It has two seats, and wells at the bottom for men to put their feet in. 017" A confectioner in Paris has had the curious mania of collecting portraits of Na poleon I, notone of which was to resemble tho other completely, lie has succeeded in getting togetiier 35,000 portraits, lie thought the fact so curious that he offered the por traits to Government, who, however, snubbed hini, leaving him to understand.that he was endeavoring to fling ridicule, not shed glory, on the name of the first Napoleoti, who was not a double-faced man. 10 s " Tho Bmpcror Maximilian’S present popularity is fiaid to be merely the glow of the honeymoon: . 1 V/hon I first married my wife/said .a fond husband, 4 1 loved her so much that I could have oaten her—and now/ lie added, with a sigh—* I wish to heaven I had/ HIT" A quaint writer nays; ‘I have seen women sc> delicate that they ore afraid to ride for fear of tlie horse running uway ; afraid to sail lor fear tho boat should overset; mid afraid to walk for fear the dew might fall.— But I uover saw one afraid to get married/ [£7** An old hunke in New York, who is next of kin hU nephew, a young scapegrace id tiio federal army, received a letter from a conlrade tbaay the young soldier had run his sword through his body. The old miser joy fdlly sent &500 to bury him. On inquiry, he found that ilia nephew had merely sold hid sword for liquor, which lie drank; jjQy* A friend said Id another, dh seeing a handsome equipage waiting in tho street: “t should like a drive opt, woilldd’t you?” “Gdt in,” replied the wag, “and I’ll be bound for it they’ll soon drive you out.” ITT* What the Lincoluites mehu by the lasi nian And the last dollar, Is, that they will be. the last to go to ttie frodt, dnd that they intend to steal the last dollar from the treasury. BIT" Wo once hedrd a woman of the world say, 44 The state of widowhood is the most inconvenient, for one must assume all the modesty of a young girl, without being abld to feign her ignorance.” A very diminutive specimenof mail lately solicited the hand of a fine buxom girl* 1 Oh, no,* said the fair biit insulting lady, 4 1 can’t think of it for a moment. Toe fact, is John, you area little too big far a cradle, and a little to small to go to church with/ T7* It Is remarkable that no one has heed hoard hurraing for Lincoln since ho caused himself to be nominated by the Oobveotkm at Baltimore; NO; 15.
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