AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
JOHN B. BRATTON Editor & Proprietor
CARLISLE, PA., NOV. 30, 1865
- Struck Oil Again. —Fifty" barrels more
best refined Coal Gil arrived in town yester
day for Wh. Blair & Son, who are doing a
very large wholesale and retail business in
the Grocery and Queensware line. f
Destructive Fire. —Between 12 and 1
o’clock on Wednesday night of last week, the
largo stone stable belonging to Judge Watts,
on West Mulberry Alley, was discovered to
be on fire. Our citizens were immediately
mused up by the ory of “ fire, fire," and the
ringing of the bolls. By the time the fire
men arrived on the ground the entire stable
was enveloped in flames, and a carpenter
shop, the property of John B. Parker, Esq.,
and occupied by John. Natciier, near the
stable, was also burning. The firemen direc
ted their whale attention to the surrounding
property, which, being thickly built up, was
in great danger ; but, with their usual zeal 7
that knowa no fail, they oonqured the flames
and prevented any further destruction of
property. A valuable horse belonging to
Hr. Jacob Boas, and a fine’sleigh, owned by
Judge Watts, were consumed with the sta
rtle. A lot of tools in the carpenter shop
were also destroyed. It was very fortunate
that a soaking rain tne day previous had
thoroughly wet the roofs of the houses in the
neighborhood of the fire, or there would have
been no telling where the destruction would
have ended, as the sparks fell thick and fast
for two squares around.
This fire was the work of incendiaries, and
if our citizens are not vigilant wo may expect
-more destruction of property this winter, as
the country is filled with such scoundrels,
who would burn us out of house and home to
gratify their fiendish desires and wicked
hearts. Therefore, wo say, be vigilant 1
Another Fire. —Scarcely are the burning
embers of the above-mentioned fire cold than
the shrill cry of “fire” is again sounded
through our quiet streets. About 7 o’clock,
on last Thursday evening, some son of the
devil set fire to a lot of stacked hay at Car
lisle Barracks. Our firemen, sore and weary
from their labors the night previous, were
again called out, and manfully wont to work.
Their services, however, were not required to
a very groat extent, as a falling rain at the
time proteoted the surrounding buildings.—
This was another dispensation of a kind Pro
vidence, as our firemen (from some cause best
known to the Superintendent of the Gas and
Water Company,) were unable to obtain a
drop of water from the plugs. After somo
delay water was obtained from the Letort
Spring, in the immediate vicinity of the fire.
The hay (throe stacks,) burned very rapidly,
and by 9 o’clock was entirely consumed.—
The loss to tho Government is estimated at
$3OOO.
Another Fair. —By reference to our ad
vertising columns it will be seen that tbo
Union Fire Company propose holding a Fair
at Rheem’s Hall, commencing on Christmas
eve, and to continue one week. This compa
ny is in debt and also in want of new boss.
It is to be hoped, therefore, that all our citi
zens will feel it a duty to contribute some
thing to the proposed Fair, and thus assist
this efficient company to liquidate its liabili
ties and to purchase the new hose that is now
absolutely necessary.
Base Ball Match. —The Cumberland Val
ley Base Ball Club (of Mechnnicsburg.) hav
ing accepted the challenge of the Tyroleans
of Harrisburg to play a friendly series of
match games, the first of the contests took
place at Mechnnicsburg on Friday last. The
day was favorable ; the clouds which obscur
ed the horizon had disappeared, and it was
cool and comfortable during the field exor
cise.
On the day of trial the Tyroleans left Har
risburg in a body on the 8:40 train and ar
rived at Mechnnicsburg at 9 o'clock, where
they were met at the depot by the Cumber
land Valley club and escorted to the town
hall, where the members of each club wore
formally introduced. A preliminary discus
sion then took place,' as to the rules of each
club in playing the game, which, when con
cluded, and all things made satisfactory, Mr.
J. P. Cromlich, of New Jersey, was appoint
ed Umpire, Tho clubs then proceeded to the
field, whore an immense crowd had assemb
led. Time was called by the Umpire at pre
cisely 10 p’olook, and the match commen
ced by the Tyroleans taking the first in-,
nings. From that time until half-past two
o’clock the game continued, during which
great excitement existed among tbo specta
tors and players.
The following is the score, by which it will
be seen that the Tyrolean won, by a score of
68 to 38:
ccub. Titter, o. it,
Statlers, o. 2 7
Kerr, p. 2 4
Mooney, >. s. 3 3
J. Ritner, Jr., 1b.4 4
A. Brindle, 2b. 4 4
Eberly, 3 b. 2 3
Rocksfollow, If. 4 4
Mollies, o. f. 5 4
D. Brindle, r. f. 15
TYROLEAN, O. B,
Kunkel, o. 3 7
Murray, p. 18
Burkholder, i. a. 2 8
Cox, lb. 4 4
Montgom’ry, 2 b. 4 5
Patterson, 3 b. 2 7
Britsoh, 1. f. 18
Parsons, c. f. 5 4
Wilson, r. f. 5 5
Total 27 38
[NG3.
.27 56
Total
Ist 2d 3d 4th sth 6th7th Bth 9th
Tyrolean. 0 2 214 6 11 6 1 8-56
Cumb.VT.il 3 8 3 0 8 3 1 1-38
Umpire—J. P. Cromlicb, Star Club, New
Brunswick, N. J.
Scorers—Messrs. Gilbert and Oswald,
After the game had concluded the Tyrole
an Club gave throe cheers for the Mechanics
burg Club, for the scorers and umpire, which
were returned by the Cumberland boys with
The utmost good feeling oxist-
v!ot ° rS woro ' n7 ' 11 splon
*'wfor them, of which they par-
'*Ush.
THE GREATEST REPUBLICAN VICTORY YET.
The negro-equality Republicans have been
shouting over their “ victories.” The editors
in the interest of that despicable and h'ell
born party have used up all their bladk-lOtter
and bold-face type to announce the “glori
ous victories” achieved in Pennsylvania, New
York, New Jersey and other States. There
is one Republican triumph, ‘however, that
they keep shady about, and this is the more
strange when wo consider that it is the great
est “ Republican victory” yet recorded. To
be-sure, it resulted about as John Brown’s
victory did—in the banging of those who
were prominent in the butchery of white men,
women, and innocent babes. But then those
black devils incarnate of Jamaica contended
for an object, just as John Brown, the old
thief and murderer did. That object was the
extermination of the whites. “John Brown’s
body lies mouldering in the ground ae his
soul goes marching along,” but his name is
deified ; beds spoken of as “John Brown, the
divine,” and no man is considered loi/al who
hesitates 'to rank the old sinner among the
gods. It will hot be long before we bear the
guilty wretches who disembowled white men
and women in Jamaica, spoken of by Repub
licans as “ gods” and “ saints,” who died for
a “ principle.”
Is it not strange, then, we repeat, that we
hear so little about the Republican victory in
Jamaica, for the very fact that hundreds of
whites were butchered and their bodies mu
tilated by infuriated and ignorant blacks, was
a Republican victory. The blacks were led
on to their devilish deeds by white men—
some of them preachers—just as the blacks
of this country are. They have Brown’s and
Helper’s, Beecher’s and Stephens’, in Ja
maica, just as wo have in America, and their
objects and principles are the same.
The Republicans of this country are clam
orous for negro-equality. They declare that
the negro must bo permitted to vote, and be
invested with all the rights now enjoyed by
white men. Will the people continue to sup
port a party advocating such a principle ?
In Jamaica negro-equality wa's recognized.—
The negro voted, held office, was in tho jury
box and at the bar in court. He was 11 equal
before the law," as old Thad Stevens con
tends fur. But this did not satisfy ouffy—
he demanded the estates of the whites, and
finally attempted to exterminate all but those
of his own color. This is the sequel, this tho
result of negro-equality. Are the people of
America ready to make the same experiment
Jamaica made? If so; let them continue to
vote for the fanatical Republican party, and
before long they will experience the same re
sults that tho whites of Jamaica have ox-
perionoed.'
This revolt by tho negroes of Jamaica
scorns to be pretty much suppressed. From
the accounts given by the Jamaica papers
and the correspondents of the Now York
journals, the most awful scenes have been
enacted. There has been one continual hang
ing day by day, until it begins to he feared
that tho burial of so many bodies will pro
duoe some serious epidemic. Over one thou
sand and fifty rebel* have been hanged and
shot in tho pariah of St. Thomas, including
Paul Bogle, his brothers and bis mother.—
The most atrocious deeds were enacted by
negro women. It turns out that several
Judases were found among tho Methodist and
Baptist ministers on tho island, who were
the ringleaders in the plot to got possession
of nil the property on the entire Island.—
The chief ring-leader was Rev. George Wm.
Gordon, a white man of wealth, and a mem
ber of the Legislature. He was hanged af
ter trial by a military commission. We have
heretofore published accounts qftlie rebellion
in the St. Thomas district. Beiow"we copy
from a Jamaica paper an interesting descrip
tion of the scenes enacted in another district;
TUB REBELLION IN THE PLANTAIN
GARDEN DISTRICT.
faithful description nr rev. hr. sloan.
[Prom tho Jamaica Gleaner, Nov. 6.]
Under the mask of religion, the negroes
living in the nogroo houses on the estates.
• and in tho mountains on plats of land where
, they had thievishly squatted had been im
. bued by certain wicked men with the doc
trines that the soil belongs to the blacks—
that tho whites are tyrants and oppressors—
i and that to exterminate, root and branch the
. latter would be “doing God service,” and
; cause to dawn on the island an unending
day of happiness. Among the thick bushes
on tho mountains, where most of tho negroes
live in hovels of their own erection, down in
the gullies, ravines, convenient spots for hi
ding and holding secret meetings, nightly,
and generally from midnight towards the
morning, assemblies were convened, addres
ses made aud hymns sung under the leader
ship of some one intent on a work of blood
and pillage. It was impossible to sleep on a
moonlight night for tho bowlings of tho
wretched dolusionists. The moment heaven
began to smile hell began to frown upon tho
earth. Frequently the promoters of these or
gies of darkness might bo'seen riding along
dressed in tho Anglo-nigger ftylo, tall had,
black suit, with white necktie oxtondingfrom
ear to ear, grinning snoeringly whenever a
white man passed them. The same super
cilious manner, too, was manifested by their
ignorant followers. No wonder, it is the
very self gratulation of the burglar and foot
pad as each ohmos within view of booty,
chuckling over tho realization of which they
have not labored. The mind of wickedness,
ridiculously prepared and crammed with
deadly elements, could not long continue un
exploded, when every hand was applying a
lighted torch. On the evening of October
1 11th, when the blacks deluged themselves in
human blood at Morant Bay, news of the re
bellion reached the Plantain Garden River
District. Many, however, could not believe
what they heard—at least the gentlemen and
ladies on the estates and elsewhere could not.
The report of slaughter in cold blood, and
unresisting of so many respectable persons
who fell in and near the court-house at the
bay, appeared rather the exuberance of ne
gro fancy than the developement of negro
depravity. The dreadful nows was speedily
confirmed. Early on Thursday morning
there was a meeting of rebels on the plains
lying between Plaintain Garden River Es
tate and the “ Rhine,” a property belonging
in some way to Mr. 0. W. Gordon, and con
necting tho doomed district with Bath, from
tho place whore the fire-brand of insurrec
tion wne brought to the estates.
Three rebels harrangued tho people, and
urged them on to bloody work. Their first
arrangement in order to prevent the escape
of any of the proscribed and the carrying of
messages for help, was to place sentinels
along the roads and paths, thus completely
hemming in the Whole district containing
the estates of Chemist, Winchester, Golden i
Grove, Amity Hall, Hordlay, Whoelerfield, i
Duckenfield, Holland, These sentinels came
armed with- cutlasses and bludgeons; ready
to murder any white man or his servant, and 1
destroy hii beasts and vsfaioles. Having 1
raade preliminary arrangements, the rebels
proceeded to arrouse the blacks in the sur
rounding places by blowing the horn and
shell. The note of alarm was taken up by
others in distant localities, and brought the
horrible thought into the minds of the few
English residents that the net-work was too
thick and close around tboir homes to allow
any ohanoe of escape. Perhaps a few bold
men, well-mounted and armed, might have
ran the gauntlet with success; but there
wore women and children, many of the lat
tor very young, and tie few arms possessed
by all tho estates put together were of no uso
against an overwhelming multitude of infu
riated blood-thirsty savages.
The rebels numbered about eight hundred,
'the English wore not more than about forty
fivo, including many women and children.—
All the arms possessed by tbs estate wore
•about' half-a-dozen fowling pieces, and a
couple of revolvers. The estates and plan
ters were therefore entirely defenseless.—
Thursday afternoon, 5 o’clock, tho exoitv
ment Of (ho mob from drink, and the meas
ure of success they had attained, was terri
ble—ories for vengeance on the white man
fiendish yella—shouts of “No white man
must be left alive,” resounded on all sides.
The family living at Stokes Hall house,
heard these dismal imprecations amidst the
scones carried on about three bundled yards
off. They retraced their steps to Golden
Grove, and attacked tho overseer’s house.—
The overseer, Mr. Chisholm, whom they
longed to kill, had previously gone away ; nil
the bookkeepers also bad concealed them
selves among the canes and bushes. The
rebels smashed and chopped up nil the doors,
windows, jealousies, and furniture, in the
place. Having finished with this place, they
went on to.” Duokenfiold,” tho overseer, Mr.
Sinclair, who had only been appointed about
a month before, and who never had an op
portunity of injuring the rebels in any man
ner, having effected his escape towards Man
chiancal with his family, about four o’clock.
Hero the destruction was carried on, even a
piano being broken open and all the strings
out to pieces. The Wains of the estate were
used by the rebels for carrying some of the
pillage to Daniel Wood. Amity H ill next
attracted attention, on their psssage thither,
tho rebels spared a small store belonging to
a man named Manning, one of tho Baptist
fraternity. The private residence of iugus
tus Hire, Esq., attorney for Amity Hall, is
situated on an eminence about hall a mile
from the works, the litter the rebels plun
dered, wantonly destroying such things ns
paints and tools, there being only a small
portion of rum in store, llordley next re
ceived a visit, and tho same violence com
milled.
Tho insatiable rebels afterward turned
their steps to the private residonoo of Mr.
Hire. It was about 12 o’clock. Tho night
was pitchy dark. As for some grand attack,
tho shell and horn sounded for somo time.—
On the hill could bo seen the pretty and ele
gantly furnished residence, for >he lamps
were burning at the time. The party at
Hire’s consisted of Messrs. T. W. Jackson,
stipendiary magistrate for Port, Crighton.
and young Hire. Sufficient warning hail
been received of the intended attack, and
Mr. Hire, becoming alarmed, suggested tho
proprietor of mounting their horses ready at
hand in tho stable and fleeing ; but ho was
overruled by i\lr. Jackson, who thought he
could say poaoo to the raging of the people.
Immediately the house is surrounded ami en
tered by the bars being forced. Mr. Jack
son advances to parley, when he is chopped
down, the old gentleman, Griqhton, becomes
the next victim, then young Hire, and lastly
his father. iVhilo young Hire lies on tho
ground, he hears the rebels declare they will
come in tho morning and finish off any who
may still exist; and also the injunction of
tho ringleader to be careful and not carry
TVway anything that might tend to convict
them, for, by faith, some of them will cer
tainly bo hanged. Mr. IPre received the
most severe wounds, for he expired oarly on
Friday morning, probably from a fractured
skull. Tho rebels oould not trouble them
selves further with the viotims beyond set
ting fire to a bed into which Mr. Jackson
had crept, and in which Dr. Crody was lying
sick, whom they pretended to spare because
ho was a medical man, and might prove use
rul to the blacks. They afterward emptied
the cellars. At the.early part of the attack,
Mr. Chisholm, who happened to bo in the
house, and on the advice of Mr. Hire, ex
changed his customary straw hat for a black
silk smoking cap, eluded the notice of the
rebels, rushed out to his horse hitched under
a treo and escaped. Tho moment he was
gone, the rebels guessed who ho was, and
wore sadly annoyed at not having taken his
life.
Daring the evening, while the men wore
engaged in the work of destruction, the wom
en were occupied in collecting together the
goods found in the stores, tying them in bun
dles and carrying them on their heads to
their respective abodes. File aftdr file of
women might be seen threading their way
along the mountain tracts, laden with plun
der, until the shades of night left no token
ot the presence of these female robbers, ex
cept the. loud and discordant shouts of joy at
the spoils each had taken. At the same
time diligent search was made among the
cane-pieces and bushes for overseers and
bookkeepers, hut in no instance did the reb
els succeed in discovering any of the fugi
tives. The hunting was accompanied by the
most horrible yells and blowing of horns;
even the oemotry, a place where tht> negro
treads with dread, was scoured amid fcorronts
of rain. Fortunately for the fugitives, the
night was very dark, and several wore una
bled to remove unnoticed into more obscure
hiding places. The slaughter at Mr. Hire’s
hovse terminated the first day's tragedy.
Suddenly, amid an indescribable confusion
of voices, the bushes where the rebels and
robbers live are lighted up with innumera
ble candles stolen from the stores and houses;
the Bable of tongues increases, execrations
of the whites are distinctly heard, mutual
quarreling succeeds, and finally the unmis
takable voices of drunken people sink into
the silence of sleep. The rebels had spread
a report that the Slaroona, a remnant of the
aboriginies of Jamaica, who have generally
preserved their loyalty, formed a grand ar
my, and acted as the chief perpetrators of
violence, when, indeed, the latter had noth
ing to do in the rebellion.
Capt. BEOKWirn’s Sentence Reversed.—
Captain L. 0, Beckwith, 22d Regiment Vet
eran Reserve Corps, who was sentenced by
court martial at Baltimore to be cashiered
and imprisoned for alleged false musters has
lo ; dny been restored to his rank and pay by
the President, upon the reounmendation of
the Judge Advocate General. —ljtljgr from
Washington.
We would like to, know why it is that
nearly every rascal who has been stealing
from the soldiers and the Government is par
doned ? The trial of Beckwith, we see it
stated, cost the Government over $15,000
lie was foupd guilty, and the President par
dons him, on the ground, we learn, that be
“ had been a very loyal mim I” That is, ho
was a good Abolitionist, had voted for Lm
coln and Johnson, and assisted to heap slan
ders upon Gen. -McClellan. Is it to bo
wondered at that so many office-holders and
army officers have been engaged in stealing?
Democratic State Contention.— The De
mocratic State Central Committee at their
meeting at Harrisburg on Tuesday fixed the
sth day of March (the 4th occurring on Sun
day) as the time and Harrisburg as the place
for holding the next Democratic State Con
vention. Good 1
STANTON--WIRZ.
“ It Is VJUVrStiilyYeJjtirte'inn military cir
cles thafthe S'ecfetaVj of War has ordered a
military cdhft to 'btfnyene for the trial ‘of
Winder, Dunbhn "and Gee, now confined in
the old Capital upon a charge of cruel treat*
ment towards ! Union prisoners at Anderson*
Tille.”— tyte'gtixfofront Washington.
No Union roan’onti object to the punish
ment of airthose, tvho'dv&r r they may bo. who
infiiofcod unnecessary hardships upon Union
prisoners. : But, after Mr. Stan Ton has ex
hausted the power and ingenuity of the,
Government,. through counsel of his own
cliosing, and before a court of his own seleo
lion, would it not be more, becoming, in the
eyes of Christendom, if he would hereafter
opnfino his prosecutions to the civil courts?
And would it not be proper, amid the sympa
thy so generally felt for those of our soldiers
who suffered in a loathsome prison, to ascer*
tain how muoh of that suffering is owing to
the brutal and ruffiantly instincts of Stanton
himself.
It was openly charged by Mr. M/>nV
gouery Blair, and never denied by Stanton,
that every one of the prisoners at the South
could have been brought home, had it “not
been for the bull-dog ferocity of Stanton.—
Long before the Andersonvillo barbarities
were heard df, his direct interference pre
venting an exchange of prisoners was the sole
cause of the infamous outrages, about which
he is-at pro lent so much distressed. And it
is ‘openly talked of in Washington, as it is
alluded to by newspaper correspondents, that
thie_acconnts for Ben Butler's resignation,
as Major General, not being accepted by tlie
War Department. It is well known that
General Grant been mustering put uf
service a great number of leading officers—•
and more especially those, like Ben Butler,
who never were of any u*o to the service—
hut Butler is said to be in possession of cer
tain information, which, if divulged, would
render the Aatocrat of the War Department
even'more infamous than Wiaz himself, lie
has proofs to convict Stanton *'f all the
charges made against him by Montgomery
Blair. We are, therefore, in favor ot giving
Stanton his turn and try him for his crimes ;
now that Wirz is tried, convicted and exo
cuted, and that the people have witnessed
Stanton's efforts to try and appease the pub
lie clamor for a victim, to divert attention
from his own infamous complicity in the
death and starvation ol Federal prisoners,
and to prevent the introduction into the court
that tried Winz, any evidence that might
kind to convict himself, there is a longing de
sire that ho, for the honor of the nation and
in defense of correct principles, should be
brought to trial. Let Us have him tried by
all means, and let Montgomery Blair and
Ben Sutler bo employed to prosecute. Even
If Stanton lias so covered up his outrages
that a legal conviction could not bo obtained,
popular condemnation would thus be publicly
and officially expressed of an It dividual,
whose Very name has become odious to all
men of .correct principles. Stanton is fully
aware of the popular opinion entertained of
him, and that is why his fear of personal
danger prompts him to keep an ai med_gutir.d.
constantly pacing, nt the public expense) in
front of hie residence.
GOV. CURTIN AND THE WHITE GHOSTS.
Id the Volunteer of June 15,1805, we gave
the following account of a robbery that had
been perpetrated in \Vost Pennsbordugh
township r
“ R'iUbery —The Thief Caught.A. young
man (a stranger in these Darts,) calling him
self George Holmes, called at trie residence
of Mr. Samuel M’Culloch, in West Penns
borough township, some ten days ago. and
professed to be in search Of Work. Mr M’O.,
being in want of ahand, employed him. Af
ter working four days, ho suddenly left in
the night, taking with him Mrs. M’Oullodh’s
gold watch, a now pair of boots, and several
shirts. Mr. M’C. got on bis track, and on
Monday last headed him at Mechanicaburg
He was arrested in the cars by officer Zinn,
who brought him to Carlisle, and he ie now
in jail; The boots he had on his feet, and
the watch ho says he gave to one of his ac
complices, who promised to aid him with
money. Ho mads a full eonfdssiori Of the
thelt afte- his arrest, and acknowledged that
he belonged to a regular band of robbers,
who are constantly on the go, ami who are
known amon"; themselves as the “ White
Ghost Association.” Holmes is quire' a
young man, say 20 or 31 years of age.”
Holmes, the tbieff spoken of ab we, was
tried at the Inst August court, and of course j
found guilty and sentenced to the penitenti
ary for a term of years. It was shown at his
trial that ho was one of a large band of or J
gsnized thieves, who travel the country to
steal and murder. On bis way to the peni
tentiary he sail] to the Sheriff who had him
in custody, “ I will not be in prison long, if
money will procure my release;, the White
Ghosts are rich.” He was in the penitenti
ary eome two months when 6;V. Curium
pardoned him, so that he might join his rob
bar band in the pursuit of his business. His
pardon no doubt coat the “ While Ghost As
sociation" a round sura, but no matter; one
operation by Hilmes would bo sufficient to
make up the amount that his pardon cost
him. So we go.
Clerical DionityOctraoed. — ‘'the fight
ing Parson, and ruffianly Governor Bbown
lovt,” of Tennessee, has had his dignity out
raged by the Legislature of that State. It
appears that he has been spreading himself
with a staff of finely dressed offioere, whom
the- Tennessee Legislature, as a matter of
economy, thought might be dispensed with.
Upon this attempt to curtail Brownlow’s
pomposity that indiyidual speaks as follows;
“Green-eyed envy, disappointed ambition,
and a littleness of soul, characteristic of small
men, with small and dirty objects in view,
have prompted these assaults. The chief
actors in the play hypocritically pretended
that they sought to economize for the State
by getting rid of the pay of staff - officers.
After consuming one week in their war
upon the Governor ond staff, these whiskey
bloated miscreants turned their batteries
loose upon the Secretary of State, and con
sumed another week of the people’s time in
abusing an officer who has more sense and
more patriotism than the whole pack barking
at his heels"
The people of Tennessee ought not' to ob
ject to these “ little ologont expenses of their
Governor.’!, -With his book of wood cuts, and
his own plaintive tales relating the persecu
tions hie'had undergone for bis loyalty four
years ago, he succeeded in gammoning the
Northern people out of a small fortune ; the
Tennesseeans have, therefore, no rsaeon to
complain of the trifling expense in question.
NORMAL SGROOL.
By aat of Assembly of 1857, Cumberland,
Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford, Hunting
don and. Blair counties wore constituted the
7th Normal School District of the State.—
The interests of oursohools now demand that
this district shall establish a school. A move
in that direction has been made in some of
the counties, and the location of the school
must soon be determined. The act provides
that when any number of oitizens not less
'than 13 shall, as contributors or stockholders,
establish such school, they shall, upon recog
nition by the edmmissiotiers appointed for
the purpose, be a corporate body entitled to
all the benefits of the provisions of the act of
Assembly. The'school already established
at Millersvillb, Lancaster county, and at Ed
'inbd'ro', Erie coUnty, flilly'establish 'the fact,
that these 'schools will be well patronized,
MillersviHe had and Edinboro* 817 stu
dents of all, grades, during the 'past year.—
The money expended by such an institution
in the vicinity where it exists will bo a suf
flciont inducement for our business men and
farmers to interest themselves in securing its
establishment in Cumberland county.
While we regard this feature of 'thb enter
prise as a pecuniary motive for prompt ac
tion, the interests of schools in 'Cumberland
oouncy will be greatly ‘promoted by having
a convenient source'from which to Supply our
achools’With first-class teachers, and a con
venient school in which to educate our sons
and daughters who rfthy desire to engage in
the profe.-sioh of teaching.
Let every one then take an active part in
this matter and attend the district meetings
to be ciiled by the school directors of the
county, to whom circular* will be sent. A
convention of delegates, three from c^ch 'dis
trict will 1)0 held in Carlisle o’a Friday, the
29th of December, for county action, knd a
convention of delegates one foV ’Cvcry twen
ty five schools from > the "frhoTo ftbrfhal Dis
trict will meet in '•Ohfifn'beteburg on the 10th
of January, 186&, The school will movt
likely, be established in this valley. Cum
berland county wo believe, for facilities of
transportation, healthful location and cen
tral position, and large supplies uf the nec
essaries of life for boarding houses, at reas
onable rates, offer’ fine inducements fur the
establishment uf the echoul w.ihin her bar
ders. Lot her act promply in securing a
large amount of stuck and it will bo done.
In another column will be found a circu
lar from the efficient County Superintend
ent, Mr. Swartz, to which we invito atten
tion.
Election Frauds in PuiL*DEi,pniA.— \Ve
take the following from the Philadelphia
Dispatch :
"The examination of Colonel Cecil Clay,
of the Fifty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteers, which look place last week,
shows the barefaced nature of the fraud that
was attempted on behalf of John Given “hy
the pretended nature of “ soldiers' votes”
from that regiment. Colonel Olay testifies
that not one of the companies of his regiltteiit
was at Lynchburg on the day of the election,
lie also states that the number ol wort in the
companies aiiUTh the service is not one hall
the number named in the spurious returns.
In one Company ,(K) Which Colonel Clay
formerly commanded ns diiptaid, there were
only five msn in Comber • and yet that com
pany wna'represented ns having polled forty
eight votes for John Given.' None of the
companies had more than twenty-five men,
yet they were all credited with" from forty
five to forty eight Votes lor Given.” Colonel
Clity’s eVidehde was sufficient to show that
thd entire returns from " Lynchburg” were
frauds and fot-gories. In tire original peti
tion of contdst the returns from this regi
ment were not attacked, the objections being
to the alleged vote of the Nineteenth Cavalry
said to have been polled at Baton Rouge.. A.
now petition was filed last week, embracing
allegations tlldt the returns from the Fifty
eight Rdgiiiteht find the Third Pennsylvania
Heavy Artillery Word also fraudulent.—
There efin be no doubt that all the returns
sent in the day before the. final meeting of
the Return judges Were false, and wefe man
ufactured but for a single pUfposdj Which
was to enable one man to triumph btsr his
felloW-oitizens. and to set aside fof his own
benefit an election solemnly.held find partic
ipated in by ninety thousand voters.”
ActjuiTTAt or John P. Reed, Ja.—tVe
mentioned la our paper of some weeks since
that Jacob- CanDsE, a Lkn.Uty Provost Mar
shal i f Bedford, had been killed by a young
man named BeeP. of the same place. Crouse
I was an impudent parrizan, who hltd been in
the habit > f on all o’C'tasions,
calling him a ‘‘ copperhead.” “ rebel,” &c.—
Finally the " loyal 1 ’ Criuse assaulted Reed
with stories, and continued to apply to him
abusive epithets. Reed could stand it no
longer, nod tiirrting upon his assailant, shot
him dead.
Last week young Seed (who is a most
worthy young man.) was tried by the Court
of Oyer and Terminer of Bedford county, and
acquitted. The verdict was a moat just and
righteous one, and is evidence that we have
still integrity in the jury box.
Rewards.— An ini’ance of the
characteristic regardless for the proprieties
of official elation on the part of Secretary
Stanton, was made manifest in hie reward
ing General Kilpatrick fur his electioneering
services in New Jersey, by changing the
name of Fort Runyun opposite Washington,
to Fort Kilpatrick.
To understand fully the nature of the act.
we hare only to call the public attention to
the fact that the Fort was named in honor of
Colonel Runyun, of the New, Jersey volun
teers, who was seriously wounded! in the bat
tle of Bull Rod, and that this same Colonel
Runyun being subsequently the Democratic
candidate for Governor of New Jersey, Gen
eral Kilpatrick was. employed to stump the
State against him. He is now rewarded by
having the name of the Fort changed to his
own from that of a gallant soldier in the
field, a very distinguished honor, under all
the circumstances 1
The Apple Crop. —Notwithstanding all
that has been said about the failure of the
New York apple crop as a reason for the ex
orbitant prices, charged for this fruit, we see
it stated in the Syracuse Standard that the
crop is equal to that of any previous season.
Favorable reports are given from half a doz
en of the apple counties. The truth is, that
the apple men, like the coal men, the butter
men and others, have made up their minds
to charge high prices, and the condition of
the crop has but little to do with it.
TOG “ COMING MAN.”
The long looked for is coming at last, viz ;
the “ irrepressible conflictthe “ culled pus
sen,” known in State {ropers.of former times
as the “ American oitizejiof African demerit.”
Amongrecedttelegramsfrom fcfie Federal cap
itol we find the following announcement:
“ The freeddion’s bureau has biade ar
rangements for sending North a largo num
ber of freodmen, to be employed in mines
and on rail-roads-”
Pennsylvania is not specially mentioned,
but tbo word “ mines” clearly indicates that
their main destination is the state where
mining is one of the principal pursuits. As
the direct consequence, therefore, of the el
ectire victory of the Pennsylvania negro par
ty, the “ coming fnan” is doming.
Lot all those who consider themselves
“an equal and a brudder” “ bress de lor,”
and lot all the rest “ look de smoke house 1”
’Conscience Monet. —The total amount of
conscience money received at the Treasury,
Department for the year ending with Juno
last was $20,876. It was received in sums
varying from fifty cents to five hundred dol
lars.—Telegram from Washington,
“ Conscience money 1” What’s thkt,nome
'may ask. It is money that hkd been Xtolen
from the Government‘by the jWlitical friehds
of the administration money that found its
way into the pockets 6 } f “loyal thieVoS.” A
few of those thieves become conscience-smit
ten, and they returned the stolen money to
the Treasury. 6ut oh, bo»V little of the ab
stracted treasure libs been returned. A drop
in thfe ofceftn— only $20,876/ all told. Ghee
lSt, 6*f ‘the Tribhne, says that some two hun
dred rfiiUiotis of dollars have been stolen from
the Guvernnfient since March 4, 1861—the
day Lincoln was inaugurated I We fear the
big thieves have experienced no compunction
Of conscience. If they had, the Treasury
would groan under the weight of conscience
money.” Never on the face of God’s green
earth was such scmmdrelism known as has
existed in this country since the Spring of
1861. On that day the frogs and Hoe o(
Egypt took possession of our land, to eat our
its substance. In the language of the La.
Crosse Democrat , “ plow Up the hard pan nl
hell, cross plow it and rake it with a fine
too h comb, and in all the depths of Sternal
damnation cannot be found a bigger set uf
knaves, thieves And tobbers than have of lake
yeuis been fattening nn the public, white
prating of their - loyalty/ ”
Harrisburg Fiftv-Setem Tears Ago.-
The Harrisburg Patriot and Union bus beeh
la vo red by a friend With a copy uf the Daih
phin published in Harrisburg, b
Jacob Elder, Escj., fifty seven years ago.—
tVom the Guardian uf March 8, 1808, the
Jut Hot publishes the following:
“ EoiluUgh Officers. —The committee feet
dl Mr. Bennett’s on the 27th of February ul
timo; for the purpose of nominating suitable
persona to he elected for Borough Officers, at
the ensuing election, to be held on Friday,
the 18(1. day of March instant, unanimously
reported the following ticket:
Chief Burgess —Wihiam Gniydoc, Bsi|.
Gentleman
Assistant Burgess —Moses Qilmnrft,_Mnr.
"chant,
Town Council —Adam Boyd, Gentl&mari;
George Hoyer, Merchant; Abraham Bom
baugli, Hatter; Geo. Wierman, Lainherman;
Benjamin Kurtz. Tann.er;, Jacob
Hatter ; Samuel Laird. Rst}.. Attorney ; Juo,
Zmo, Tanner; Obed Fahnestock, Merchant.
High Constable —-George Wetherholt:
Signed on behalf of the oommitee by
George ZciotEß, Forenlan ”
The Patriot and Union comments cm the
above as follows:
“Jacob Elddr, publisher of the Guardian,
Vra» long a' prominent citizen of Dauphin
county, Win. Graydon, Moses Gilmore, Ad
am Boyd and Samuel Laird may bo said tb
represent the Scotch Irish element id th’o
then small borough—the other gentloniaO the
German element. Many of the descendants
of these men now discharge, of have hereto
fore honorably discharged, the duties of md
nicipal officers. Harrisburg was incorporat
ed April, 13, 1791. The corporation will
therefore complete its three-quarters of a cen
tury next April. The town was laid out il
1787.
“THd bhljf p'ersoh living, of those rherifinif
6d, is our old fellow-citizen Jacob Zeigler,
and ht at so groat an age that one seldom
meets a person who had known him as a hat
ter; fewer still who have worn an article ol
his manufacture."
A Sharp Trick —The Washington db'frfe'i
po'ndbnt of the Philadelphia Ledgef, of the
27th inst., seridS the following i
The' Oo'rtiiriisSiorier of Cltstoma Has j Hat re
ceived intelligence of the detection knd ar
rest of a party of female smugglers on the
Canada frontier, engaged in the whisky traf
fic. A few days since the revenue dotec ives
on a. train coming from Canada , had their
suspicions aroused by the unusual number o'
women and babies on hoard, and noticed that
out of thirty two babies but two evinced the
ordinary signs of animation.- On arriving at
a station on th'iS sidtf tyf the' fiver,- where se
veral of the suspicious fdi'ffules left the tra'n
th.e detectives with' th'eji usflaf. fcViUrfe'sy. in
sisted oh- holding the “ bahy " until tffo la
dy alighted, and at once discovered that it
was uncommonly heavy. An investigation
immediately took place,- when the “ baby”
was found to bb manufactured of tin, and tc
contain from three to five gallons of whisky,
these “ babies" were ingeniously construe
ed, and so oiotbed as to exhibit a tiny
foot and ankle, encased in red shoos mo.
white-stockings. The. Commissioner of Cus
toms is making every effort to suppresssimi
lar smuggling operations along the Northern
frontier.
O’ It lias been discovered that the plates
on which hundreds of thousands of counter
feit green-backs and legal-tender notes have
been printed, were the genuine and original
plates that belonged to the Government !
They were abstracted from' the Treasury De
partment by some of the “ loyal” clerks.—
No wonder it is so difficult to- tell a counter
foit note from the genuine, they have all
been printed from the same plates 1 At the
rate, the r ‘ loyal thieves” Sre going on, our
entire country will be insolvent in a very
short time. But, nobody seems to care.
Mdtint in a N«oro Regiment. — A tele
gram to the Philadelphia Inquirer, dated
Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 27, says that a
mutiny occurred in the Filth Regiment of
Colored Troops, at Jacksonville, Florida, in
quelling which the Lieutenant-Colonel was
shot in the hand and several of the mutineers
wounded. The negroes, it seems, have not
much respect for their white officers, when
they determine on mutiny.
Cholera. — A case of cholera, rcsul tin gfa
tal, occurred in Greenwich street, New York’,
on Monday.
CIRCULAR,
To the School Directors of n,
al Boroughs and Township
Counties Comprising the 7,,
nial School District, via • p,
land, Adams, Fulton, ’ p'., 1
Bedford, Huntingdon and «
At a meeting of the School
Cumberland County, held in m, ;
the 2d inst., during the session of i Tj,
ors’ Institute, cullod lor the Dnrnn “
auguratmg measures for the fcaf.ihi.
a S.ate Normal SohooUn th sIS'
nblv to the provisions hf the Act of \t'
W< ‘he und e rsi £ nea w.aj.instruet d“l
dress the different Suhbbl ‘Bohrda i,„
ly interested in the enterprise witli
'seoure their co-bperatihh. It is
each Board of .Bolihol Directors P an 2
two or three influential then in thiiV d
Aon of public spirit and interested
success and prosperity of the common
system, to hold a mooting in their
bugh or township, for the purpose oft
sing the measure,.and appointing thr
egates 10. attend a county oonvontiot
IRBS of ( i a n r ' 3 ' e ’i °l Fl ; aday * Decent
1865, , at 10 o clock, A. M. p rnm ~
county oohrentions, one delegate fbr :
twenty-five schools in the county shallbV -'xtim
pointed to attend a District Convention
ft ? ‘?Qrr ,am t bO 7. b V rg ’ on Wod 'Mw
10th, 1860, at which convention it isL. 6"f
od to receive the reports of suhmommill. ‘
the various townships and boroughs r % JS'P
to the amount of stock subscribed
the establishment of sueh Normal S-S
the District and also to take such men JS#
to locate and erect suitable building
insure the speedy and complete auoceS-^
this great enterprise. -It is reoomm.rfi.f^
therefore, that you should immediate*! 1.
sure the services of an active energetic'
in each school district of your townabio
borough, to canvass thoroughly for
fions so that your delegates may be abltt-iSIII
report at did county convention on the 23j-' ; atWl
of December what amount of enonnra KOffl ...
can be expected fn>m your District. " :
The enterprise is one which, with prJvSii
managi-m-nt and under proner direction ifvji&§p
prove a blessing tu rtdr ohildr.e.l hod
children s children, even to the mostdiv,,.
generation. If is worthy of our mmol
oris, and it h. hoped and cordially osne®;:#®
that every Director ami every good
imo whose hands.this.oirliular, may Hill »ji . "
actively interest himself W bring the pt«
to a successful ouii.milUtinn. • .vajfcpi
iSKOItaE ISWAHTZ, vmffl
bw Conwy !hip-rin(endm.
SmhtuSAttsT.iwN. Niv 16 1865. -tSSifi
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Labor is Iloautuble’
. 'There ia no hut honor, in
right walk of industry,-whether it he ini?
hng the ground, ranking tools, weaving I*l
ncs, oi selling the products behind u cos?
te r- .youth mny Imndle n,,yard stick,!
measure a pi.ece.ol ribbon,; and there niUA
nill discredit,ih.doing so unless he allows«
.TO*® rio Jiiglier,range than the stis
and ribiioh ; to bo aa short na.the one nndt
narrow as the other. “ Let not those hi,:?
who hdve,” Hrtid Fuller., “ hut those whoinr'
not A lawful liSHihg.” And Bishop IK
RI,, S;, Sweet is Hie destinies of all trndn
whethfct of the brow dr dt tlie ni'ind.” Mn
who have raised themselves frdni an humbli
calling need not fco hri ashdriiod. but rrtthii
to be.proud of the diflioiiltiea they Inu
siirmoutUed. The laborer on his feet staodt
higher than the nobleman on his knedfi.
An American President, asked whtl
jy.iLS_kia_c^fttrof-armH7Temßmb : STiTTg — tharh
had been a hewer of wood ip his youth, re
plied, “ a pair. ()r.shi^t•RleoveB. , ' Lord Tfa
dorden was proud ro- point out to hmsoa tba
shop ih wjiicli- his father hadf shaved fora
E? nr ]T*. lVeiieh . •dodtoi’ once teuntel
Flncliief. Bislu»p of who had beent
tallow-chandler in his youth, wifch-the mean
ness of his origin; to frhioH Fieifh\er re
plied, “If you had been born in the«aann
condition that I was, you would, still Ime
been bdt a riiaker of candles.” Some small
spirits, dshnmed of their.,origin, are alwati
striving to coriheal it, ans by the efforts the;
make to dp so, betray themselves ; like thili
wortpjf,nut stupid Yorkshire dyer, who liMj
* n S gained bis money by honest'chimnejl
sleeping, and feeling ashamed of chimnepj
built his house without one, sending all hill
sirioke iritd thd shaft of hia dye-works.
Obituary Gxorqe Stephenson.—Oi
Thursday, aged thirty-eight years, did
George Stephenson, one oh the three sunt
vors of the hito larffented Dr. Kanfe, had nil
accofnfmhifed him on his Artie expedition it
search cfSli* John Franklin, Stephenson wat
too? '** ® u ' 3 '' n on fhe 16th of Septemta
1827, and early took to the sea. He wnsi
“^®. ,ie^ nle n and a-genial, social companion
While in the Arctic his heart became nffeci
ed. and he has always suffered fronf it. Til
Government, in recognition of his servicH,
gave him a posiflofi in the' CUstorti Honnn
Night Inspector, in which cafpa’cicy, it rt
malned up' to tile tim'e of hiq dea'th'. HevM
at one, time purser of the Baltic under Ciy,
tain Jnseph J. tfoinstodk. Dr. Hayes ml
Captain W. W. Wilson. U. S. K. S-, are tbi
onty siMihtfd of the Kudo Arctic Expodi c
On Saturday the mortal remains of Stoph
ensoh Were placed in thoir aileat hoins i Q
Greenwood. —Phil , Inquirer.
(H7 9 * The fate of Jamaica will be the fa'*
of those parts of the Union,* whete* nftgrii’*
equality is established. Will oiir .people nof
be warned in time ? Is it possible tKrti there
can be found in this country, men, wbiU
Wtiafens, fathers, husbands, brothers, sona o(
the white race, who are willing to see such
heart-rending horrors enacted in any of tha
States of the,Union, asarQnow ; defiantly oat*
ried on by the negroes of Jamaica ?
[£y~ Thoms'* J O.irver, a defaulting Treas
ury. agent at,Mobile, has been sentenced b?
a oonrt:m.ur.tinl,lo a fine of §9,000. and out
year’s iraor.isdnment with hard labor.
Frauds, amounting to over $lOO,OOO. bar*
been-discovered in the Quartermaster’s' Dr
partment. at Louisville, Ky.
A government agent iii Mississippi dbo
collected §BO,OOO has accounted for only
$6,000.
The dear loyal thieves, they appear to 1 bfl
as busy as ever.
CT* A negro burglar was killed in N»'b
ville on the night of the 24th. A negro sol'
dier mortally wounded a white man ne*r
Nsshville on Friday night. The “ coming
man" appears to be enjoying his freedom i°
his ‘‘-own way."
C 7" The leading hotel in Washington' hi*
raised the price of board to §& per day* i*
anticipation of the'influx of Congressmen.-'
A number of Congressmen Will roside in Bal
timore. ; !
IC7" The shoddy vote of Massachusetts a
63,000 less this year than last, while the D*’
mocratio vote is only 20,000 less. So ehoddf
hasn’t anything to brag about, oven in 6*
very strongest locality.
O’" That old political sinner, Tain Sri
yKNS, who has been in Washington for ooffl*
daysi is unstinted in hiidenunoiatlonsplb'®
President's policy.-
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