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VOL. 51.
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rU»LI9HEP EV*EtIT THURSDAY MORNING BY
JOUST B, BRATTON.
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M’CLELL.O, THE BRAVE.
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.